7. And it came to be, when Sanballat and Toḇiyah, and the Araḇs, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdoḏites heard that the walls of Yerushalayim were being repaired and the broken places began to be filled, that they became very wroth,
8. and all of them conspired together to come to fight against Yerushalayim and to do harm to it.
9. But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10. And Yehuḏah said, “The strength of the burden bearers is weakening, and there is so much rubbish that we are unable to build the wall.”
11. And our adversaries said, “Let them not know or see it until we come into their midst and shall slay them, and cause the work to cease.”
12. And it came to be, when the Yehuḏim who dwelt near them came, that they said to us ten times, “From whatever place you turn, they are against us.”