Nehemiah 2:18-20

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁸ I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king’s words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, “Let us arise and build.” ^(A)So they put their hands to the good work. ¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite ^[a]official, and ^(B)Geshem the Arab heard it, ^(C)they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? ^(D)Are you rebelling against the king?” ²⁰ So I answered them and said to them, “^(E)The God of heaven will give us success; therefore we His servants will arise and build, ^(F)but you have no portion, right or memorial in Jerusalem.”