Nehemiah 4:1 (NKJV)
But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and mocked the Jews.

Sanballat wasn’t mad because walls were being rebuilt. He took offense at what the walls represented. Sanballat and Tobiah’s issue with the Jewish people wasn’t their city and wall… it was their worship and their God.

Like in Nehemiah’s day, today, we find that anything wholesome, anything modest, and anything righteous infuriates the spirit of this day. Why is it that righteousness is mocked? Because who and what Satan can’t corrupt, he antagonizes.

Nehemiah 4:13-14 (NKJV)
Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

Our families are worth fighting for!