Nehemiah 6:10-14

Conspiracy Against Nehemiah

¹⁰ Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was _f confined to his home, he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night." ¹¹ But I said, "Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? ₁ I will not go in." ¹² And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, _g but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. ¹³ For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me. ¹⁴ _h Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also _i the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.

1. Cross References
   Jeremiah 36:5
   And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, "I am banned from going to the house of the Lord.
   
2. Cross References
   Ezekiel 13:17
   And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds. Prophesy against them
   Ezekiel 13:22
   Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life.
   
3. Cross References
   Nehemiah 13:29
   Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
   
4. Cross References
   Ezekiel 13:17
   And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds. Prophesy against them