Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, х chowmat (H2346)] - the walls of a city (Nehemiah 2:8; Isa. 20:10; Let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, х chowmat (H2346)] - the walls of a city (Nehemiah 2:8; Isa. 20:10; Isaiah 36:11-12).
That we be no more a reproach, х cherpaah (H2781)] - scorn, opprobrium (Job 16:10; Psalms 39:9; Psalms 79:12). But here it denotes the object of reproach (Psalms 22:7; Joel 2:17-19), as the returned exiles were the butte of Sanballat and his associates (Nehemiah 4:4; Nehemiah 5:13; Zephaniah 2:8). The sight of his credentials, and the animating strain of his address and example, so revived their drooping spirits, that they resolved immediately to commence the building, which they did, despite of the bitter taunts and scoffing ridicule of some influential men.