Nehemiah 6:19

Moreover, they praised him before me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters, so that he might make me afraid.

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In The King James Version

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

In Context

18For there were many in Judea who had sworn an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah, and because Jehohanan, his son, had married the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 6:13For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.

Isaiah 37:10“You shall say this to Hezekiah, the king of Judah, saying: Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying: ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’

John 15:19If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.

1 John 4:5They are of the world. Therefore, they speak about the world, and the world listens to them.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 6:16-19

The Completion of the Wall. ( b. c. 445.) 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. 16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God. 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them. 18 For there were many in Judah… Read the whole commentary →

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