Nehemiah 4:5-7

Lexham English Bible

⁵ Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have provoked the builders to anger.^[a]

⁶ So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half its height. For the people had a heart to do it.

Opposition Stopped

⁷ Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.