^{7 Ref} And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,

^{8 Ref} and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.