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Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>that read: <p class="tab1stline">“It is reported among the nations—and Geshem<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ‘There is a king in Judah.’ Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” <p class="reg"> But now, my God,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> strengthen my hands. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: <p class="indent1stline">“Let us meet at the house of God <p class="indent2"> inside the temple. <p class="indent1"> Let us shut the temple doors <p class="indent2"> because they are coming to kill you—<p class="indent2"> by night they are coming to kill you!” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Completion of the Wall<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>in Kephirim</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>in the valley</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>Gashmu</i><span class="thin"> </span>, a variant of <i>Geshem</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see verse 1.<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew <i>But now</i><span class="thin"> </span>; for clarity, <i>my God</i><span class="thin"> </span> has been included.<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <i>Elul</i><span class="thin"> </span> is the sixth month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of August and September.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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