Nehemiah 4:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ Don’t atone their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you, because they have demoralized the builders.”

⁶ So we rebuilt the wall, completing it halfway up, because the people were committed to working.

Sanballat Reacts to the Progress

^7 [a]But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repair work on the Jerusalem wall was progressing and that its breaches were being repaired, they flew into a rage.