Moshe Wise in Typos
'בל' should be 'כל]'
Nehemiah 6:16A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah
16. That this verse is hopeless as it stands is shown by a fairly literal rendering: and it was when all our enemies heard—and all the nations round about us were afraid, and they fell greatly in their eyes, and they knew that this work had been done of God. There are two ways in which we can clear up the passage: (1) By assuming an ellipsis which told the effect upon the enemy of hearing about the completion of the walls. (2) By supposing that “all the nations round about us” is an interpolation