^{6 Ref} So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

^{7 Ref} But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;