Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
If a fox go up - the foxes were mentioned from their having been known, in great numbers, to infest the ruined and desolate places in the mount and city of Zion (Lamentations 5:18), as they frequently did vineyards, which in consequence were fenced not by stone-hedges only, but frequently by stone parapets (Numbers 22:24; Psalms 80:13; Proverbs 24:31; Song of Solomon 2:15; Isaiah 5:5; cf. Virgil, 'Georgics,' 2:371).