Conspiracy Against Nehemiah

6 Now when ^(A)Sanballat and Tobiah and ^(B)Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (^(C)although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and ^(A)Geshem the Arab heard of it, ^(B)they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? ^(C)Are you rebelling against the king?”

¹⁰ But when ^(A)Sanballat the Horonite and ^(B)Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.

Opposition to the Work

4 ^[a] Now when ^(A)Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.

³ The sons of Hassenaah built ^(A)the Fish Gate. ^(B)They laid its beams and ^(C)set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Rebuilding the Wall

3 Then ^(A)Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built ^(B)the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and ^(C)set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the ^(D)Tower of Hananel.

⁶ So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

^7 [a] But when ^(A)Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.

^25 (A)Know therefore and understand that ^(B)from the going out of the word to restore and ^(C)build Jerusalem to the coming of an ^(D)anointed one, a ^(E)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again^[a] with squares and moat, ^(F)but in a troubled time.

⁶ Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah ^(A)repaired the Gate of Yeshanah.^{[a] (B)}They laid its beams and ^(C)set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.