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.