American Standard Version
"and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein. "
— Nehemiah 4:8, American Standard Version
“And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.”
“and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.”
“All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.”
“And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.”
“And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.”
“And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.”
and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.