And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.

and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

And they all gathered together, so that they might go forth and fight against Jerusalem, and so that they might prepare ambushes.

And conspired all of them together,.... All the above men and people entered into a confederacy and combination:
to come and to fight against Jerusalem; to bring an army with them, and by force cause the Jews to desist; the Jews (e) pretend they came to war, and brought with them an army of 180,000 men, which is not probable:
and to hinder it; the building of the walls of it; or "to make a wandering for him" (f); for Nehemiah, or the people, or both, to, cause them to stray from their work, to frighten them from it, that they might become like men at their wits end, not knowing what to do, where to turn themselves, or what course to steer, but to wander about as persons out of their senses; so Aben Ezra. De Dieu joins this clause to the next verse, to cause everyone of them to wander, we prayed, &c.
(e) Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. (f) "ad faciendum ei errorem", Montanus; "ei aberrationem", Genevenses; "vagationem et palationem", alii apud De Dieu.