Nehemiah 6:10

Conservative English Version

One day I went to visit Shemaiah. He was looking very worried, and he said, "Let's hurry to the holy place of the temple and hide there. We will lock the temple doors, because your enemies are planning to kill you tonight."

Cross References

Genesis 36:39

(SEE 36:31)

1 Kings 6:5

Along the sides and back of the temple, there were three levels of storage rooms. The rooms on the bottom level were seven and a half feet wide, the rooms on the middle level were nine feet wide, and those on the top level were ten and a half feet wide. There were ledges on the outside of the temple that supported the beams of the storage rooms, so that nothing was built into the temple walls.

2 Kings 11:3

Joash hid in the temple with Jehosheba for six years while Athaliah ruled as queen of Judah.

2 Kings 9:8

Every man and boy in Ahab's family must die, whether slave or free.

2 Chronicles 28:24

Ahaz collected all the furnishings of the temple and smashed them to pieces. Then he locked the doors to the temple and set up altars to foreign gods on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:3

In the first month of the first year of Hezekiah's rule, he unlocked the doors to the LORD's temple and had them repaired.

2 Chronicles 29:7

They locked the doors, then let the lamps go out and stopped burning incense and offering sacrifices to him.

Ezra 10:31

Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah from the family of Harim;

Ezra 8:16

So I sent for the leaders Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam. I also sent for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were very wise.

Nehemiah 6:12

Suddenly I realized that God had not given Shemaiah this message. But Tobiah and Sanballat had paid him to trick me

Psalm 12:2

Everyone tells lies, and no one is sincere.

Psalm 37:12

Merciless people make plots against good people and snarl like animals,

Proverbs 11:9

Dishonest people use gossip to destroy their neighbors; good people are protected by their own good sense.

Jeremiah 36:5

Then I said, Baruch, the officials refuse to let me go into the LORD's temple,

Ezekiel 3:24

His Spirit took control of me and lifted me to my feet. Then the LORD said: Go back and lock yourself in your house!

Malachi 1:10

I wish someone would lock the doors of my temple, so you would stop wasting time building fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you priests, and I refuse to accept any more of your offerings.

Matthew 7:15

Watch out for false prophets! They dress up like sheep, but inside they are wolves who have come to attack you.

John 3:20

People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done.

Acts 21:30

The whole city was in an uproar, and the people turned into a mob. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Then suddenly the doors were shut.