^{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;

^{8 Ref} And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.