Nehemiah 6:10

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

One day I went to the house of a man named Shemaiah son of Delaiah. Delaiah was the son of Mehetabel. Shemaiah had to stay in his house. He said, “Nehemiah, let’s meet in God’s Temple. Let’s go inside the Holy Place and lock the doors. Men are coming to kill you. Tonight they are coming to kill you.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:5

Then Jeremiah said to Baruch, “I cannot go to the Lord’s Temple. I am not allowed to go there.

Acts 21:30

An angry reaction spread throughout the city, and everyone came running to the Temple. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the holy area, and the gates were closed immediately.

John 3:20

Everyone who does evil hates the light. They will not come to the light, because the light will show all the bad things they have done.

Matthew 7:15

“Be careful of false prophets. They come to you and look gentle like sheep. But they are really dangerous like wolves.

Malachi 1:10

“I wish one of you would close the Temple doors to stop the lighting of useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you. I will not accept your gifts.” This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.

Ezekiel 3:24

But the Spirit came into me and lifted me up on my feet. He said to me, “Go home and lock yourself in your house.

Proverbs 11:9

With their words hypocrites can destroy their neighbors. But with what they know, good people can escape.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plan bad things for those who are good. They show their teeth in anger at them.

Psalm 12:2

People lie to their neighbors. They say whatever they think people want to hear.

Nehemiah 6:12

I knew that God had not sent Shemaiah. I knew that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had paid him to do that.

Ezra 10:31

From the descendants of Harim, these men: Eliezer, Ishijah, Malkijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Ezra 8:16

So I called these leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, and I called Joiarib and Elnathan. (These men were teachers.)

2 Chronicles 29:7

They shut the doors of the porch of the Temple and let the fire go out in the lamps. They stopped burning incense and offering burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:3

Hezekiah repaired the doors of the Lord’s Temple and made them strong. He opened the Temple again. He did this in the first month of the first year after he became king.

2 Chronicles 28:24

Ahaz gathered the things from God’s Temple and broke them to pieces. Then he closed the doors of the Lord’s Temple. He made altars and put them on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 11:3

Then Joash and Jehosheba hid in the Lord’s Temple. Joash hid there for six years. During that time Athaliah ruled over the land of Judah.

2 Kings 9:8

So all Ahab’s family will die. I will not let any male child in Ahab’s family live. It doesn’t matter if that male child is a slave or a free person in Israel.

1 Kings 6:5

Then Solomon built a row of rooms around the main part of the Temple. This row of rooms was three stories tall with the rooms built one above the other.

Genesis 36:39

When Baal Hanan died, Hadad ruled that country. Hadad was from the city of Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred. (Mezahab was Matred’s father.)