¹⁰ So the ^[a]couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but ^(A)they laughed at them with scorn and mocked them.

Work Is Ridiculed

4 ^[a]Now it came about that when ^(A)Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry, and he mocked the Jews.

²² ‘Behold, all of the ^(A)women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,