Nehemiah Chapter 6
6:1 | Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and [that] there was no breach left therein; (though at that ![]() |
6:2 | 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 ![]() |
6:3 | 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? |
6:4 | Yet they sent unto me four ![]() |
6:5 | Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth ![]() |
6:6 | Wherein [was] written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith [it, that] thou and the Jews ![]() ![]() |
6:7 | And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at ![]() ![]() ![]() |
6:8 | Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. |
6:9 | 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. |
6:10 | Afterward I came unto the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
6:11 | 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 ![]() |
6:12 | 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. |
6:13 | Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and ![]() ![]() |
6:14 | My God, ![]() |
6:15 | So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth ![]() ![]() |
6:16 | 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. |
6:17 | Moreover in those ![]() |
6:18 | 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. |
6:19 | Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. [And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. |