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Nehemiah 6 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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The Enemy's Plot

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall, and that no breach remained in it, although at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - then Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together at [fn]Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to [fn]harm me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same manner a fifth time with an open letter in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:6 - In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and [fn]Gashmu says, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:7 - “You have also appointed prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning [fn]you, ‘A king is in Judah!’ And now it will be reported to the king according to these reports. So come now, let us take counsel together.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them [fn]in your own mind.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - For all of them were trying to frighten us, [fn]thinking,[fn]They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - When I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was [fn]confined at home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you, and they are coming to kill you at night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - But I said, “Should a man like me flee? And could one such as I go into the temple [fn]to save his life? I will not go in.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:12 - Then I perceived [fn]that surely God had not sent him, but he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:13 - He was hired for this reason, that I might become frightened and act accordingly and sin, so that they might have an evil report in order that they could reproach me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:14 - Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were trying to frighten me.

The Wall Is Finished

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:15 - So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - When all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations surrounding us saw it, they [fn]lost their confidence; for they recognized that this work had been accomplished [fn]with the help of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17 - Also in those days many letters went from the nobles of Judah to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:18 - For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:19 - Moreover, they were speaking about his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. Then Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.
NASB95 Footnotes
Another reading is, one of the villages
Literally: do evil to me
In v 1 and elsewhere, Geshem
Literally: you, saying
Literally: from your heart
Literally: saying,
Literally: Their hands will drop from
Literally: shut up
Literally: and live
Literally: and behold God
Literally: fell exceedingly in their own eyes
Literally: from our God
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