(10) When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Israel, in all ages, met with Ammonites and Moabites to vex and oppose them. And what is it otherwise now? Jesus gives a sweet testimony concerning this when he saith, if the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. John 15:18-19.