Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

Nehemiah 6 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

The Enemy’s Plot

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 -

Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, although at that time I had not set up doors in the gates,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave to come down to [meet with] you?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - They sent word to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same way.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same way the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:6 - In it was written, “It is reported among the [neighboring] nations, and Gashmu is saying that you and the Jews are planning to revolt, and that is the reason you are rebuilding the wall. And according to these reports, you are to be their king.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:7 - “Also [it is reported that] you have appointed prophets to make a proclamation concerning you in Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ And now these things will be reported to the [Persian] king. So come now, and let us consult together.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - I sent a message to him, saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, [O God,] strengthen my hands.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 -

When I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was [fn]confined at home, he said, “Let us meet [and take refuge] together in the house of God, [fn]within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple, because they are coming to kill you, and they are coming to kill you at night.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - But I said, “Should a man like me flee [in fear and hide]? Should [fn]someone like me enter the temple [for sanctuary] to save his life? I will not go.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:12 - Then I realized that God had not sent him, but he spoke this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:13 - He was hired for this reason, that I would be frightened and do as he said and sin, so that they would have [grounds to make] a malicious report in order to censure and disgrace me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:14 - Remember, O My God, Tobiah and Sanballat in regard to these actions of theirs, and also [remember] the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who were trying to frighten me.

The Wall Is Finished

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:15 -

So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - When all our enemies heard about it, and all the [Gentile] nations around us saw it, [fn]they lost their confidence; for they recognized that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17 - Moreover, in those days many letters went from the nobles of Judah to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:18 - For [fn]many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:19 - Also, they were speaking about Tobiah’s good deeds in my presence, and reporting to him what I said. Then Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.
See the AMP Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
AMP Footnotes
The reason for the confinement is not given and is a matter of speculation. One possibility is that Shemaiah had become ceremonially defiled, in which case the Hebrew probably should be understood as “had been confined” because the purification process would have to be completed before he could enter the temple.
Only the priests were allowed to enter the sanctuary.
I.e. a man who is not a priest.
Lit they fell greatly in their own eyes.
Tobiah was related by marriage to various influential Jewish leaders (Ezra 2:5; Neh 3:4, 30; 7:10).
AMP

Amplified Bible Copyright (c) 2015 by

The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved.

For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.