Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Amnite, and Geshem the Arabian] These were three chief governours under the king of Prha, beyond Euphrates.
will ye rebell against the king?] Thus the wicked when they will discredit the children of God, use to lay rebellion unto their charge, both because it maketh them most odious unto the world, and also stirreth the hatred of princes most against them, Ezra 4:15.