Nehemiah 4:3
Good News Translation
Tobiah was standing there beside him, and he added, "What kind of wall could they ever build? Even a fox could knock it down!"

New Revised Standard Version
Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “That stone wall they are building—any fox going up on it would break it down!”

Contemporary English Version
Tobiah from Ammon was standing beside Sanballat and said, "Look at the wall they are building! Why, even a fox could knock over this pile of stones."

New American Bible
Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said: “Whatever they are building—if a fox attacks it, it will breach their wall of stones!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

Tobiah

Nehemiah 2:10,19 And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel. . . .

Nehemiah 6:1 And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)

1 Kings 20:10,18 And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. . . .

2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to have riders for them.

Context
The Work is Ridiculed
2And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt? 3Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.4Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:3
The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Lamentations 5:18
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

Nehemiah 4:2
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