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1 When Sanballat heard we were rebuilding the wall, he became enraged and made fun of the Jews. 2 In front of his allies and the army from Samaria, he said, |What do these miserable Jews think they're doing? Can they rebuild it by themselves? Are they going to offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Will they get the stones out of the rubbish heaps, burned as these stones are, and give them new strength?| 3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside Sanballat, said, |Even a fox would make their stone wall collapse if it walked on top of what they're building!| 4 [Nehemiah prayed,] |Our God, hear us. We are despised. Turn their insults back on them, and let them be robbed in the land where they are prisoners. Nehemiah 4:1-4, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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