OLD TESTAMENT

Nehemiah 4:3

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Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

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Verse 3. Leap over. Hebrew Septuagint and so forth “break down.” Calmet.—Bitter sarcasm, which excites the indignation of Nehemias! Tirinus.

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