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In Nehemiah 6, Sanballat and his confederates challenge Nehemiah and his army to meet them in the villages of the Ono four times. However, Nehemiah only replies that he is busy rebuilding. Sanballat sends another message, stating that Nehemiah was making alliances against Assyria and planning a rebellion. Nehemiah replies, "None of these things ...
1 Now it happened when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it (though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates), 2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of Ono."
He incited the Ammonites to hinder Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem. [3] [4] He, along with Sanballat the Horonite and Geshem the Arabian, resorted to a stratagem and, pretending to wish a conference with Nehemiah, invited him to meet them at Ono, Benjamin. Four times they made the request, and every time Nehemiah refused to come.
7 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, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. [19]
Indeed, Tobiah the Ammonite is recognized by various scholars to be an ancestor of the clan, and he is mentioned often and in some detail in the book of Nehemiah. [15] "Tobiah The Servant, The Ammonite", [16] is said to have conspired in 445 BCE with other land-owners, Sanballat of Samaria and Geshem the Arabian, to oppose Nehemiah on the ...
Nehemiah's enemies request a meeting, but suspecting an ambush, he refuses. He prays to God for strength. Meanwhile, the wall around Jerusalem is completed. People: Sanballat - Tobiah - Geshem - Nehemiah - Gashmu - God - Shemaiah - Noadiah. Places: Ono - Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah
The Torah is read before the congregation, after which the Israelites enact religious reforms. Nehemiah prays for God to remember him. PEOPLE: Israelites - God - Eliashib - Tobiah - Levites - Nehemiah - Shelemiah - Zadok - Pedaiah - Hanan - Joiada - Sanballat the Horonite
The cause of the offences can be traced to the religious laxity in the community, especially with close relationship of the priests with Tobiah (verse 4) and the family alliance of a grandson of Eliashib, the high priest, with Sanballat the Horonite (verse 28). [12] Nehemiah took drastic measures to eradicate the ill: [13]