When Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they became furious.
No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord should say, ‘The Lord will exclude me from his people,’ and the eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am a dried-up tree.’
About the Ammonites, this is what the Lord says: Does Israel have no sons? Is he without an heir? Why then has Milcom , dispossessed Gad and his people settled in their cities?
The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary – those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.