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Nehemiah 6:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The people would always tell me about the good things Tobiah had done, and then they would tell Tobiah everything I had said. So Tobiah kept sending letters, trying to frighten me.

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and to frighten me into doing something wrong, because they wanted to ruin my good name.

Many people in Judah were loyal to Tobiah for two reasons: Shecaniah son of Arah was his father-in-law, and Tobiah's son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

Our enemies were trying to frighten us and to keep us from our work. But I asked God to give me strength.

After the wall had been rebuilt and the gates hung, then the temple guards, the singers, and the other Levites were assigned their work.

Lawbreakers praise criminals, but law-abiding citizens always oppose them.

If you belonged to the world, its people would love you. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you to leave the world behind, and that is why its people hate you.

The people of this world cannot hate you. They hate me, because I tell them that they do evil things.

These enemies belong to this world, and the world listens to them, because they speak its language.




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