Sanballat
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem
the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had
builded the wall, and [that] there was no breach left therein;
(though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the
gates;)...
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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?...
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But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and
the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard
that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the
breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,...
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Sanballat the Horonite or Sanballat I (in Neo-Assyrian
Aramaic, Sinballidh or "The god Sin has vivified") was a
Samaritan leader and official of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
who lived in the mid to late fifth century BC. He is best
known from the Book of Nehemiah, which casts him as one of the
chief opponents of the Jewish governor Nehemiah d...
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san-bal'-at (canebhallaT; Greek and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin
Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Sanaballat; Peshitta, Samballat):
Sanballat the Horonite was, if the appellation which follows
his name indicates his origin, a Moabite of Horonaim, a city
of Moab mentioned in Isa 15:5; Jer 48:2,5,34; Josephus, Ant,
XIII, xxiii; XIV, ii. He is named along with To...
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-An enemy of the Jews in rebuilding Jerusalem after the
Babylonian captivity
Ne 2:10,19; 4; 6; 13:28...
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(strength), a Moabite of Horonaim. Ne 2:10,13; 13:28 He held
apparently some command in Samaria at the time Nehemiah was
preparing to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, B.C. 445, Ne 4:2
and from the moment of Nehemiah's arrival in Judea he set
himself to oppose every measure for the welfare of Jerusalem.
The only other incident in his life is his...
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held some place of authority in Samaria when Nehemiah went up
to
Jerusalem to rebuild its ruined walls. He vainly
attempted to
hinder this work (Neh. 2:10, 19; 4:1-12; 6). His
daughter became
the wife of one of the sons of Joiada, a son of the
high priest,
much to the grief of Nehemiah (13:28)....
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A Moabite of Horonaim (Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah
13:28). Seemingly he had some command over "the army of
Samaria" (Nehemiah 4:2) under Artaxerxes. A perpetual opponent
of Nehemiah from the time of his arrival in Judaea. (See
NEHEMIAH.) Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian
(Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 4:6) were in l...
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