1
H8085
Now it happened, when it was reported
H5571
to Sanballat
H2900
and Tobiah,
H1654
and to Geshem
H6163
the Arabian,
H3499
and to the rest
H341
of our enemies,
H1129
that I had built
H2346
the wall,
H6556
and that there was no breach
H3498
left
H1571
therein; (though
H6256
even to that time
H5975
I had not set up
H1817
the doors
H8179
in the gates;)
2
H5571
that Sanballat
H1654
and Geshem
H7971
sent
H559
to me, saying,
H3212
"Come,
H3259
let us meet
H3162
together
H3715
in the villages
H1237
in the plain
H207
of Ono."
H2803
But they intended
H6213
to
H7451
harm me.
3
H7971
I sent
H4397
messengers
H559
to them, saying,
H6213
"I am doing
H1419
a great
H4399
work,
H3201
so that I can't
H3381
come down.
H4399
Why should the work
H7673
cease,
H834
while
H7503
I leave
H3381
it, and come down to you?"
4
H7971
They sent
H702
to me four
H6471
times
H1697
after this sort;
H7725
and I answered
H1697
them the same way.
5
H5571
Then Sanballat
H7971
sent
H5288
his servant
H1697
to me the same way
H2549
the fifth
H6471
time
H6605
with an open
H107
letter
H3027
in his hand,
6
H3789
in which was written,
H8085
"It is reported
H1471
among the nations,
H1654
and Gashmu
H559
says
H3064
it, that you and the Jews
H2803
intend
H4775
to rebel.
H1933
Because of that, you are
H1129
building
H2346
the wall.
H1933
You would be
H4428
their king,
H1697
according to these words.
7
H5975
You have also appointed
H5030
prophets
H7121
to preach
H3389
of you at Jerusalem,
H559
saying,
H4428
‘There is a king
H3063
in Judah!'
H8085
Now it will be reported
H4428
to the king
H1697
according to these words.
H3212
Come
H3289
now therefore, and let us take counsel
H3162
together."
8
H7971
Then I sent
H559
to him, saying,
H1961
"There are
H1697
no such things
H1961
done
H559
as you say,
H908
but you imagine
H3820
them out of your own heart."
9
H3372
For they all would have made us afraid,
H559
saying,
H3027
"Their hands
H7503
will be weakened
H4399
from the work,
H6213
that it not be done.
H2388
But now, strengthen
H3027
my hands."
10
H935
I went
H1004
to the house
H8098
of Shemaiah
H1121
the son
H1806
of Delaiah
H1121
the son
H4105
of Mehetabel,
H6113
who was shut in
H559
at his home; and he said,
H3259
"Let us meet together
H1004
in the house
H430
of God,
H8432
within
H1964
the temple,
H5462
and let us shut
H1817
the doors
H1964
of the temple;
H935
for they will come
H2026
to kill
H3915
you; yes, in the night
H935
will they come
H2026
to kill you."
11
H559
I said,
H3644
"Should such
H376
a man
H1272
as I flee?
H935
Who is there that, being such as I, would go
H1964
into the temple
H2425
to save his life?
H935
I will not go in."
12
H5234
I discerned,
H430
and behold, God
H7971
had not sent
H1696
him; but he pronounced
H5016
this prophecy
H2900
against me. Tobiah
H5571
and Sanballat
H7936
had hired him.
13
H7936
He hired
H3372
so that I would be afraid,
H6213
do so,
H2398
and sin,
H7451
and that they might have material for an evil
H8034
report,
H2778
that they might reproach me.
14
H2142
"Remember,
H430
my God,
H2900
Tobiah
H5571
and Sanballat
H4639
according to these their works,
H5031
and also the prophetess
H5129
Noadiah,
H3499
and the rest
H5030
of the prophets,
H3372
that would have put me in fear."
15
H2346
So the wall
H7999
was finished
H6242
in the twenty -
H2568
fifth
H435
day of Elul,
H2572
in fifty -
H8147
two
H3117
days.
16
H341
It happened, when all our enemies
H8085
heard
H1471
of it, that all the nations
H5439
that were about us
H5439
were afraid,
H3966
and were much
H5307
cast down
H5869
in their own eyes;
H3045
for they perceived
H4399
that this work
H4399
was worked
H430
of our God.
17
H3117
Moreover in those days
H2715
the nobles
H3063
of Judah
H1980
sent
H7235
many
H107
letters
H2900
to Tobiah,
H2900
and Tobiah's
H935
letters came to them.