Nehemiah 6 WEB

Nehemiah 6:1 (WEB)
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Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)

Nehemiah 6:2 (WEB)
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that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Nehemiah 6:3 (WEB)
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I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?

Nehemiah 6:4 (WEB)
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They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Nehemiah 6:5 (WEB)
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Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

Nehemiah 6:6 (WEB)
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in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause you are building the wall: and you would be their king, according to these words.

Nehemiah 6:7 (WEB)
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You have also appointed prophets to preach of you 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.

Nehemiah 6:8 (WEB)
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Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.

Nehemiah 6:9 (WEB)
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For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it not be done. But now, [God], strengthen you my hands.

Nehemiah 6:10 (WEB)
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I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, 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 kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you.

Nehemiah 6:11 (WEB)
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I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

Nehemiah 6:12 (WEB)
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I discerned, and, behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Nehemiah 6:13 (WEB)
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For this cause 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.

Nehemiah 6:14 (WEB)
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Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

Nehemiah 6:15 (WEB)
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So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.

Nehemiah 6:16 (WEB)
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It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.

Nehemiah 6:17 (WEB)
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Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them.

Nehemiah 6:18 (WEB)
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For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.

Nehemiah 6:19 (WEB)
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Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.