¹⁶ The Lord aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs^(A) who lived near the Cushites.

⁷ But when Sanballat, Tobiah,^(A) the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.