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Updated: June 12, 2025
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
As they neared the second goal, Ben-Hur turned in behind the Roman's car. The joy of the Messala faction reached its bound: they screamed and howled, and tossed their colors; and Sanballat filled his tablets with wagers of their tendering. Malluch, in the lower gallery over the Gate of Triumph, found it hard to keep his cheer.
Sanballat and Tobiah soon tire of laughter and mockery, when they see it is of no avail; they move off discomfited, and the work goes on as before. Satan, the great enemy of souls, is the same to-day as he was in Nehemiah's time.
Messala of Rome, in wager with Sanballat, also of Rome, says he will beat Ben-Hur, the Jew. Amount of wager, twenty talents. Odds to Sanballat, six to one. "Witnesses: SANBALLAT." There was no noise, no motion. Each person seemed held in the pose the reading found him. Messala stared at the memorandum, while the eyes which had him in view opened wide, and stared at him.
"I am just from the stalls, O sheik," he said, bowing gravely to Ilderim, who began combing his beard, while his eyes glittered with eager inquiry. "The horses are in perfect condition." Ilderim replied simply, "If they are beaten, I pray it be by some other than Messala." Turning then to Simonides, Sanballat drew out a tablet, saying, "I bring you also something of interest.
Then, when that plot completely fails, Sanballat loses his temper. One day a messenger arrives at the gate of Jerusalem with an insult in his hand. The insult is in the form of a piece of parchment; it is a letter from Sanballat, an 'open letter, ver. 5. Letters in the East are not put into envelopes, but are rolled up like a map, then the ends are flattened and pasted together.
So they strengthened their hands for this good work. But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
So Tobiah and Sanballat bought up one of the prophets, and hired him to try to induce Nehemiah to go into the temple, that they might put him to death there. "Now, Nehemiah, there is a plan to kill you, come into the temple. Let's go in and stay for the night." He came near being deceived, but he said, "Shall I, such a man as I, be afraid of my life, and do that to save my life?"
And in the next chapter Josephus inserts the story of the Samaritan Sanballat and the building of the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim, as though these events happened at the time of Alexander's invasion of Persia. Rabbinical chronology interposes only one generation between Cyrus and Alexander.
He tells Nehemiah that his life is in immediate danger, that there is a plot set on foot by Sanballat to murder him that very night, and that this plot has been revealed to him by God.
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