The Enemy Conspires to Attack

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But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, then they were very angry;

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and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

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But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.”

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Our adversaries said, “They shall not know, neither see, until we come into their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

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When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

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Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

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I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

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When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

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