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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Nehemiah 6 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/nehemiah/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/nehemiah/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Nehemiah 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../nehemiah/5.htm" title="Nehemiah 5">◄</a> Nehemiah 6 <a href="../nehemiah/7.htm" title="Nehemiah 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Sanballat’s Conspiracy<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gesam the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and <i>that</i> there was no opening left therein; (<i>but</i> hitherto I had not set up the doors on the gates;) <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that Sanaballat and Gesam sent to me, saying, Come and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they <i>were</i> plotting to do me mischief. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, and I shall not be able to come down, lest the work should cease: as soon as I shall have finished it, I will come down to you. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they sent to me <i>again</i> to this effect; and I sent them <i>word</i> accordingly. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Sanaballat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And in it was written, It has been reported among the Gentiles that thou and the Jews are planning to revolt: therefore thou art building the wall, and thou wilt be a king to them. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And moreover thou has appointed prophets to thyself, that thou mightest dwell in Jerusalem as a king over Juda: and now these words will be reported to the king. Now then, come, let us take counsel together. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I sent to him, saying, It has not happened according to these words, <i>even</i> as thou sayest, for thou framest them falsely out of thy heart. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For all were trying to alarm us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from this work, and it shall not be done. Now therefore I have strengthened my hands.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I came into the house of Semei the son of Dalaia the Son of Metabeel, and he was shut up; and he said, Let us assemble together in the house of God, in the midst of it, and let us shut the doors of it; for they are coming by night to slay thee. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I said, Who is the man that shall enter into the house, that he may live? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I observed, and, behold, God had not sent him, for the prophecy was a fable <i>devised</i> against me: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and Tobias and Sanaballat had hired against me a multitude, that I might be frightened, and do this, and sin, and become to them an ill name, that they might reproach me. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Remember, O God, Tobias and Sanaballat, according to these their deeds, and the prophetess Noadia, and the rest of the prophets who tried to alarm me.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Completion of the Wall<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the <i>month</i> Elul, in fifty-two days. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard <i>of it</i>, that all the nations round about us feared, and great alarm fell upon them, and they knew that it was of our God that this work should be finished. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And in those days letters came to Tobias from many nobles of Juda, and those of Tobias came to them. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For many in Juda were bound to him by oath, because he was son-in-law of Sechenias the son of Herae; and Jonan his son had taken the daughter of Mesulam the son of Barachia to wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they reported his words to me, and carried out my words to him: and Tobias sent letters to terrify me.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>