Nehemiah 6:10-19

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.

The Wall Is Finished

¹⁵ So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. ¹⁶ And _j when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, _k for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. ¹⁷ Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came to them. ¹⁸ For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of _l Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of _m Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife. ¹⁹ Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters 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
   
5. Cross References
   Nehemiah 2:10
   But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.
   Nehemiah 4:1
   Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.
   Nehemiah 4:7
   But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.
   
6. Cross References
   Psalms 126:2
   Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them.
   
7. Cross References
   Ezra 2:5
   The sons of Arah, 775.
   
8. Cross References
   Ezra 8:16
   Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight.
   

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