Nehemiah 4:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him, and he said, What they build–if a fox climbs upon it, he will break down their stone wall.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.

Common English Bible

³ Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, added: “If even a fox climbs on whatever they build, their wall of stones will crumble.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Then too, Tobiah, an Ammonite, his assistant, said: "Let them build. When the fox climbs, he will leap over their stone wall."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build; if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

Nehemiah 4:3 Cross References

1 Kings 20:10

Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

1 Kings 20:18

He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

2 Kings 18:23

Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.

Nehemiah 2:10

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard this, it displeased them greatly that some one had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 6:1

Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

Lamentations 5:18

for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

Deuteronomy 23:3

“No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the Lord for ever;