7But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;
8And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.
9But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.
10And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
11And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.
12And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.
13So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
