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Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then I sent unto him, saying: ‘There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For they all would have us afraid, saying: ‘Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.’ But now, strengthen Thou my hands. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And as for me, I went unto 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 slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I said: ‘Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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 taunt me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have me put in fear. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard thereof, 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 wrought of our God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For there were many in Judah sworn unto 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 to wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} Heb. 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