# Nehemiah 06 📖
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## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
## Opposition to the Rebuilding Efforts Continues
[[#Verse 01.]] When 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),
[[#Verse 02.]] Sanballat 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.
[[#Verse 03.]] So 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?”
[[#Verse 04.]] They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.
[[#Verse 05.]] The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.
[[#Verse 06.]] Written 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.
[[#Verse 07.]] You 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.”
[[#Verse 08.]] I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. All of this is a figment of your imagination.”
[[#Verse 09.]] All 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!
[[#Verse 10.]] Then 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.”
[[#Verse 11.]] But 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!”
[[#Verse 12.]] I 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.
[[#Verse 13.]] He 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.
[[#Verse 14.]] Remember, 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!
## The Rebuilding of the Wall Is Finally Completed
[[#Verse 15.]] So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.
[[#Verse 16.]] When 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.
[[#Verse 17.]] In those days the aristocrats of Judah repeatedly sent letters to Tobiah, and responses from Tobiah were repeatedly coming to them.
[[#Verse 18.]] For 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.
[[#Verse 19.]] They 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.
## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary==
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