¹⁰ So the ^[a]couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but ^(A)they were laughing at them to scorn and mocking them.

Sanballat and Tobiah Mock the Jews’ Work

4 ^[a]Now it happened that when ^(A)Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and very vexed and mocked the Jews.

²² ‘And behold, all of the ^(A)women who have remained in the house of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the ^[a]officers of the king of Babylon; and behold, those women will say,