Nehemiah 4:7

4:7 (4:1) 1  When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem 2  had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.

Nehemiah 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors 3  acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”

1 sn Chapter 4 begins here in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 4:1.

2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

3 tn Heb “your fathers.”