²⁰ I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding,^(A) but as for you, you have no share^(B) in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

Further Opposition to the Rebuilding

6 When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah,^(A) Geshem^(B) the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—

¹⁵ So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.