And before this, Eliashib the priest being given over the cells of the house of our God, being near to Tobiah:

And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, and that the breaks began to be closed, then they were very angry,

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.