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What does Nehemiah 4:8 mean?
"and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us."
— Nehemiah 4:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
But 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 filled, they were very angry;
and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
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