Nehemiah 6 (NET)

Nehemiah 6:1¹When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 2:10Neh 2:19Neh 4:1Neh 3:1Neh 3:3Neh 4:6-7Dan 9:25Neh 3:6

Nehemiah 6:2²Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me saying, “Come on! Let’s set up a time to meet together at Kephirim in the plain of Ono.” Now they intended to do me harm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 8:12Ps 37:12Neh 11:352 Sam 20:92 Sam 3:27Eccl 4:4Ezek 33:31Jer 41:2Luke 20:19-21Mic 7:4-5

Nehemiah 6:3³So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:4Matt 10:161 Tim 4:15-16Luke 14:30Prov 14:15Eccl 9:10

Nehemiah 6:4⁴They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 18:51 Cor 15:58Gal 2:5Judg 16:10Judg 16:15-20Judg 16:6Prov 14:15Prov 7:21

Nehemiah 6:5⁵The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:13-152 Thess 2:102 Cor 2:112 Kgs 18:26-28Eph 6:11

Nehemiah 6:6⁶Written in it were the following words: “Among the nations it is rumored (and Geshem has substantiated this) that you and the Jews have intentions of revolting, and for this reason you are building the wall. Furthermore, according to these rumors you are going to become their king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 2:191 Pet 3:16Ezra 4:12Rom 3:81 Pet 2:12-132 Cor 6:8Ezra 4:15Jer 20:10Jer 9:3-6John 19:13

Nehemiah 6:7⁷You have also established prophets to announce in Jerusalem on your behalf, ‘We have a king in Judah!’ Now the king is going to hear about these rumors. So come on, let’s talk about this.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 26:24-261 Kgs 1:181 Kgs 1:251 Kgs 1:341 Kgs 1:72 Sam 15:10-12Acts 23:15Neh 6:12-13

Nehemiah 6:8⁸I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. All of this is a figment of your imagination.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 52:2Job 13:4Acts 24:12-13Acts 25:10Acts 25:7Dan 11:27Isa 59:4John 8:44Matt 12:34Ps 36:3

Nehemiah 6:9⁹All of them were wanting to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.” So now, strengthen my hands!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 138:31 Pet 5:101 Sam 30:62 Cor 12:9Eph 3:16Eph 6:10Heb 12:12Isa 41:10Neh 4:10-14Phil 4:13

Nehemiah 6:10¹⁰Then I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. He was confined to his home. He said, “Let’s set up a time to meet in the house of God, within the temple. Let’s close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. It will surely be at night that they will come to kill you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 36:5Matt 7:15Ps 37:121 Kgs 6:52 Chr 28:242 Chr 29:32 Chr 29:72 Kgs 11:32 Kgs 9:8Acts 21:30

Nehemiah 6:11¹¹But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? I will not go!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:13Prov 28:1Ps 11:1-2Acts 20:24Luke 13:31-33Phil 2:17Ps 112:6Ps 112:81 Sam 19:5Eccl 10:1

Nehemiah 6:12¹²I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 13:221 Cor 12:101 Cor 2:151 Pet 5:21 Tim 3:32 Pet 2:3Acts 20:33Ezek 13:19Ezek 13:7Isa 56:11

Nehemiah 6:13¹³He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 20:102 Cor 11:122 Tim 1:7Jas 4:17Neh 6:6Prov 29:51 Tim 5:14Acts 6:13Isa 57:11Jer 18:18

Nehemiah 6:14¹⁴Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs—also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who have been trying to scare me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:292 Tim 4:14-151 John 5:161 Kgs 22:22-242 Tim 3:8Ezek 13:16-17Isa 9:14-15Jer 11:20-23Jer 14:15Jer 14:18

Nehemiah 6:15¹⁵So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 4:1-2Ps 1:3Dan 9:25Ezra 6:15

Nehemiah 6:16¹⁶When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 5:1Ps 126:2Neh 4:7Neh 2:10Neh 4:1Acts 5:38Num 23:23Exod 14:25Neh 6:1-2

Nehemiah 6:17¹⁷In those days the aristocrats of Judah repeatedly sent letters to Tobiah, and responses from Tobiah were repeatedly coming to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 24:10-12Mic 7:1-6Neh 13:28Neh 3:5Neh 5:7

Nehemiah 6:18¹⁸For many in Judah had sworn allegiance to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jonathan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 2:5Neh 7:10Neh 3:30Neh 3:4

Nehemiah 6:19¹⁹They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:5Acts 4:18-21Isa 37:10-14John 15:19John 7:7Neh 6:13Neh 6:9Prov 28:4