The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and fifty.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites heard that, it grieved them sore that there was come a man which sought the wealth of the children of Israel.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, "What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away again from the king?"

And Tobiah the Ammonite beside him said, "Let them build on: if a fox go up, he shall break down their stony wall."

But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that they had begun to stop up the gaps, they were very wroth;

And when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the others of our enemies heard that I had builded the wall, and that there were no more gaps therein - howbeit at the same time had I not hanged the doors upon the gates -

For I perceived that God had not sent him; Yet spake he prophecy upon me. Nevertheless, Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him for money.

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according unto these their works, and of the Prophetess Noadiah and of the other Prophets, that would have put me in fear.

And at the same time were there many of the chiefs of Judah, whose letters went unto Tobiah, and from Tobiah unto them.

And they spake good of him before me, and told him my words; and Tobiah sent letters, to put me in fear.

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty.

And before this had the Priest Eliashib delivered the chest of the house of our God unto his kinsman Tobiah:

to come to Jerusalem. And I gat knowledge of the evil that Eliashib did unto Tobiah, in that he had made him a chest in the court of the house of God,

and it grieved me sore, and I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chest,