003:032 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. 004:001 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 004:002 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned? 004:003 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall. 004:004 Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity; 004:005 and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders. 004:006 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work. 004:007 But it happened that 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 stopped, then they were very angry; 004:008 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. 004:009 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. 004:010 Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. 004:011 Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease. 004:012 It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us. 004:013 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 004:014 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Don't be you 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. 004:015 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work. 004:016 It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked