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Nehemiah 6 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - Now it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and unto the rest of our enemies, that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein (though even unto that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - 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?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:6 - wherein was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou art building the wall: and thou wouldest be their king, according to these words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:7 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:9 - For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:12 - And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:13 - 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 reproach me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:14 - 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 put me in fear.

The Wall Is Finished

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:15 - So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17 - Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:18 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:19 - Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
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