Sanballat mocks the Jews, and Tobiah the Ammonite, who was by him, speaks
산발랏이 유다 사람을 비웃고 암몬 사람 도비야가 곁에 섰다가 말함
Nehemiah 4:1–3: the text says, “But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.” He speaks before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and says, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?” Tobiah the Ammonite, who was by him, says, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.” The Korean Revised Version gives 4:2 no subject of its own, running on from 4:1, and reads at 4:3 저들의 건축하는 성벽은 여우가 올라가도 곧 무너지리라 (the wall they are building will fall down at once, even if a fox goes up on it).
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- NEH 4:1–3, engwebp
1But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
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Nehemiah (son of Hacaliah) — Took part in — Sanballat mocks the Jews, and Tobiah the Ammonite, who was by him, speaks
Evidence: Nehemiah 4:1–3
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Sanballat — Took part in — Sanballat mocks the Jews, and Tobiah the Ammonite, who was by him, speaks
Evidence: Nehemiah 4:1–3
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Tobiah — Took part in — Sanballat mocks the Jews, and Tobiah the Ammonite, who was by him, speaks
Evidence: Nehemiah 4:1–3
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Current wording: Nehemiah 4:1–3: the text says, “But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.” He speaks before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and says, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?” Tobiah the Ammonite, who was by him, says, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.” The Korean Revised Version gives 4:2 no subject of its own, running on from 4:1, and reads at 4:3 저들의 건축하는 성벽은 여우가 올라가도 곧 무너지리라 (the wall they are building will fall down at once, even if a fox goes up on it).
Cited evidence: NEH 4:1–3, engwebp
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