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Text -- Nehemiah 2:15-20 (NET)
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2:15 I continued up the valley during the night , inspecting the wall . Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate , and so returned .
2:16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing , for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers .
2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned . Come on ! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue .”
2:18 Then I related to them how the good hand of my God was on me and what the king had said to me. Then they replied , “Let’s begin rebuilding right away !” So they readied themselves for this good project.
2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite , Tobiah the Ammonite official , and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said , “What is this you are doing ? Are you rebelling against the king ?”
2:20 I responded to them by saying , “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding . But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem .”
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