My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
My God, think thou ... and on the prophetess Noadiah. [Furst ('Concordance,' sub voce) doubts or rejects the reading, hanªbiy'aah (H5031), the prophetess. And so also does the Septuagint too Nooadia too profeetee, Noadias, the prophet.] This plot-together with a secret collusion between the enemy and the nobles of Judah who were favourably disposed toward the bad Samaritan, in consequence of his Jewish connections (Nehemiah 6:18) - the undaunted courage and vigilance of Nehemiah were enabled, with the blessing of God, to defeat, and the erection of the walls thus built in troublous times (Daniel 9:25) was happily completed (Nehemiah 6:15) in the brief space of 52 days. So rapid execution, even supposing some parts of the old wall standing, cannot be sufficiently accounted for, except by the consideration that the builders laboured with the ardour of religious zeal, as men employed in the work of God.