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Nehemiah Answers Sanballat From the Wall
by emmanuel_higgins
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Nehemiah 6:4
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Now it came
to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and
that
there was no breach left therein; ( though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
2
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in
some one of
the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
3
And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I
am
doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
5
Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6
Wherein
was
written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith
it, that
thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
7
And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying,
There is
a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
8
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
9
For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore,
O God
, strengthen my hands.
10
Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, 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.
11
And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who
is there
, that,
being
as I
am
, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12
And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13
Therefore
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 reproach me.
14
My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
15
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth
day
of
the month
Elul, in fifty and two days.
16
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard
thereof
, and all the heathen that
were
about us saw
these things
, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
17
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and
the letters
of Tobiah came unto them.
18
For
there were
many in Judah sworn unto him, because he
was
the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19
Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him.
And
Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
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