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When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

2:10 Sanballat. Sanballat was governor of the Persian province of Samaria. His name has been found on one of the famous Elephantine papyri, dated 407 B.C.


2:10 the welfare of the children of Israel. Nehemiah had actually been appointed governor of Judah (Nehemiah 5:14).


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