Nehemiah 6:13

They hired him to make me afraid, so that I might do what he said and sin, so they could give me a bad name in order to humiliate me.

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Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

In Context

12I realized that it was not God who sent him, but that he had prophesied against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

14Call to mind Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, and all that they did. Also call to mind the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who tried to make me be afraid.

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Cross References

Proverbs 22:1A good name is to be chosen over great riches 1 and favor is better than silver and gold. 1

Ecclesiastes 7:1A good name is better than costly perfume, 2 and the day of death is better than the day of birth. 1

Isaiah 51:12“I, I, am he who comforts you. 1 Why are you afraid of men, who will die, the sons of mankind, who are made like grass? 1

Jeremiah 1:17Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be shattered before them, or I will shatter you before them!

Jeremiah 20:10I have heard rumors of terror from many people all around. 'Report! We must report it!' 1 Those who are close to me watch to see if I will fall. 'Perhaps he can be tricked. 1 If so, we can overpower him and take our revenge on him.' 1

Ezekiel 13:17So you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own minds, and prophesy against them.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 6:11-15

Shemaiah's Plot Defeated. ( b. c. 445.) 10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. 11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. 12 And, lo, I perceived that God… Read the whole commentary →

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