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An idea at last came to his relief. "Thou Jew!" he said, "where hast thou twenty talents? Show me." Sanballat's provoking smile deepened. "There," he replied, offering Messala a paper. "Read, read!" arose all around. Again Messala read: "AT ANTIOCH, Tammuz 16th day. "The bearer, Sanballat of Rome, hath now to his order with me fifty talents, coin of Caesar.
He must have felt much inclined to give Tobiah the bitter retort he so richly deserved, or to call upon his men to drive Sanballat and his party from the walls. But Nehemiah speaks not. He does not utter a single word to Sanballat or to his friends.
So when Alexander had received him kindly, Sanballat thereupon took courage, and spake to him about his present affair.
I gave my oath to Geshem the Arabian, Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite, not to allow it to be rebuilt, from fear of the Jews, lest they rise up against me." For the moment, Esther refrained from uttering her petition. All she asked was, that the king and Haman would come to a banquet she proposed to give. She had good reasons for this peculiar course of conduct.
Our master, the king, may be deceived by you, but I, Sanballat, see through your hypocrisy and your wicked designs. Nehemiah's answer was clear and to the point. Three things he would have Sanballat know: We have higher authority than that of man for what we do. 'The God of heaven, He will prosper us. We intend to go on with our work in spite of anything you may say or do.
'We His servants will arise and build. It is no business or concern of yours. You, Sanballat, have nothing whatever to do with it. 'Ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. Be content then, Sanballat, to manage your own province of Samaria, and to leave Jerusalem and the Jews to me and to their God.
After this, when Alexander had conquered Syria and Palestine, Sanballat, who governed the province of Samaria for Darius, submitted to the conqueror; and having married his daughter to Manasseh, the brother of Jaddua the high-priest, he obtained permission from Alexander to build a temple on mount Gerizzim, in imitation of that which was built at Jerusalem.
His name was an Assyro-Babylonian one, so that he was probably descended from one of the Babylonian families settled in Samaria, and it signifies 'The Moon God gives life. His native place was Horonaim in Moab, and Sanballat was by nation a descendant of Lot.
On his bed he told me between groans." A very vivid portrayal of hate in a few words; and Ben-Hur saw that the Roman, if he lived, would still be capable and dangerous, and follow him unrelentingly. Revenge remained to sweeten the ruined life; therefore the clinging to fortune lost in the wager with Sanballat.
Manasseh was elevated with these promises, and staid with Sanballat, upon a supposal that he should gain a high priesthood, as bestowed on him by Darius, for it happened that Sanballat was then in years.
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