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nehemiah 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] near him and he said, "Even what they are building-- if a fox should jump on [it], he would break their stone wall down!"
3. if a fox go up--The foxes were mentioned because they were known
to infest in great numbers the ruined and desolate places in the mount
and city of Zion
(La 5:18).