Nehemiah 6:9–19

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9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, fO God, strengthen my hands. 10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was gshut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. 11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. 12 And, lo, I perceived hthat God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might ireproach me. 14 kMy God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the hprophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

15 *So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month lElul, min fifty and two days. 16 And it came to pass, that when nall our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for othey perceived that this work was wrought of our God. 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah †sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them. 18 For there were many in Judah psworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of qArah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of rMeshullam the son of Berechiah. 19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my ||words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.