Nehemiah 2:18-20

English Standard Version

¹⁸ And I told them ^(A)of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” ^(B)So they strengthened their hands for the good work. ¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and ^(C)Geshem the Arab heard of it, ^(D)they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? ^(E)Are you rebelling against the king?” ²⁰ Then I replied to them, ^(F)“The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim^[a] in Jerusalem.”