Book 16 : NEHEMIAH - Chapter 006
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That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us
meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono.
But they thought to do me mischief
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And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great
work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease,
whilst I leave it, and come down to you
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Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I
answered them after the same manner
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Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the
fifth time with an open letter in his hand
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Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and
Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for
which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their
king, according to these words
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And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at
Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it
be reported to the king according to these words. Come now
therefore, and let us take counsel together
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Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as
thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart
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For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be
weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O
God, strengthen my hands
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Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah
the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut 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
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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
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And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he
pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat
had hired him
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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 reproach me
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My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to
these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest
of the prophets, that would have put me in fear
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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the
month Elul, in fifty and two days
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And it came to pass, that when all 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 they perceived that
this work was wrought of our God
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Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters
unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them
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For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was
the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son
Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of
Berechiah
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Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my
words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear
Book 16 : NEHEMIAH - Chapter 006
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