14. Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who have been trying to intimidate me.
15. So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in just 52 days.
16. When all our enemies heard, all the surrounding nations were afraid and fell greatly in their own eyes, because they realized that this work had been accomplished by our God.
17. Also in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them.
18. For many in Judah were under oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.