⁶ So we rebuilt the wall until the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had the will to keep working.^(A)

⁷ When Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs,^(B) Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed,^(C) they became furious.^(D)