19 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and ^gGeshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you ^hrebelling against the king?”

6 In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem¹ also says it, that you and the Jews intend to ^hrebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.