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Chapter 6 Now it came to pass,
when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the

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Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard
that I had builded the wall, and that

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there was no breach left therein,
though at that time I had not set up the

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doors upon the gates.

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The Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me,
saying, Let us meet together in some one

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of the villages in the plain of Ono.

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But they thought to do me mischief.

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And I sent messengers unto them,
saying, I am doing a great work,

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so that I cannot come down.

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Why should the work cease, whilst I leave
it, and come down to you?

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Yet they sent unto me four times after
this sort, and I answered them after the

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same manner.

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Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in
like manner the fifth time, with an open

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letter in his hand, wherein was written,
It is reported among the heathen,

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and Geshem you saith it, that thou and the
Jews think to rebel.

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For which cause thou buildest the wall,
that thou mayest be their king according

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to these words?

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And thou hast also appointed prophets to
preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying,

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There is a king in Judah, and now shall it
be reported to the king according to these

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words.

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Come now, therefore, and let us take
counsel together.

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Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no
such things done as thou sayest,

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but thou faintest them out of thine own
heart.

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For they all made us afraid, saying,
Their hands shall be weakened from the

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work, that it be not done.

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Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

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Afterward I came unto the house of Shimea,
the son of Deliah, the son of Mehetabiel,

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who was shut up.

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And he said, Let us meet together in the
house of God, within the temple,

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and let us shut the doors of the temple.

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For they will come to slay thee,
yea, in the night will they come to slay

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thee.

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And I said, Should such a man as I flee?

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And who is there, that being as I am,
would go into the temple to save his life?

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I will not go in.

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And lo, I perceived that God had not sent
him, but that he pronounced this prophecy

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against me.

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For Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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Therefore was he hired, that I should be
afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they

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might have matter for an evil report,
that they might reproach me.

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My God, think thou upon Tobiah and
Sanballat according to these their works,

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and on the prophetess Noadiah,
and the rest of the prophets, that would

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have put me in fear.

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So the war was finished in the twenty and
fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and

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two days.

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And it came to pass, that when all our
enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen

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that were about us saw these things,
they were much cast down in their own

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eyes.

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For they perceived that this work was
wrought of our God.

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Moreover, in those days, the nobles of
Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah,

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and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

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For there were many in Judah sworn unto
him, because he was the son-in-law of

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Shekiniah, the son of Erah.

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And his son Johanan had taken the daughter
of Meshulam, the son of Berechiah.

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Also they reported his good deeds before
me, and uttered my words to him.

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And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.