^{7 Ref} But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and 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 wroth;

^{8 Ref} and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.