Nehemiah 2:18 (BSB)

I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. “Let us start rebuilding,” they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.

From Nehemiah 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Nehemiah 2:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Nehemiah 2:9-20: We are here told, I. Now Nehemiah was dismissed by the court he was sent from. The king appointed captains of the army and horsemen to go with him (Neh 2:9), both for his guard and to show that he was a man whom the king did delight to honour, that all the king's servants might respect him accordingly.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Nehemiah 2:18: But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian,.... This third man might be both an Arabian by birth, and governor of some part of Arabia near Judea: heard it; of their beginning to build: they laughed us to scorn, and despised us; as very silly people, that undertook what they could never perform: and said; adding threatenings to...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Nehemiah 2:18: Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work]. (g) They were encouraged and gave themselves to do well, and to travel in this worthy enterprise.
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Nehemiah 2:18: Then I told them - He opened to them his design and his commission.