In a day — Do they intend to begin, and finish the work, all in one day? For if they spend any long time about it, they cannot think that we will suffer them to do it. The stones — Will they pick up their broken stones out of the ruins, and patch them together. Burnt — Which stones were burnt, and broken, by the Chaldeans when they took the city.
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Nehemiah 4:2
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortifya themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?