Rashi, on Neh 2:19

“But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?”

“and they mocked When our adversaries heard the news of the building of the walls of the city, they mocked us. are...against the king Are you rebelling against the king by building the wall of the city in order to rebel against him?”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.