Nehemiah 6 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And it came to be when Sanballat, and Toḇ

² that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to do evil to me.

³ So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

⁴ However, they sent me the same word four times, and I answered them the same word.

⁵ Then Sanballat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand, the same word, the fifth time.

⁶ In it was written: Among the nations it has been heard, and Gashmu is saying, that you and the Yehuḏ

⁷ And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Yerushalayim, saying, ‘A sovereign is in Yehuḏ

⁸ Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such matters done as you are saying, but you are inventing them in your own heart.”

⁹ For all of them were making us afraid, saying, “Let their hands slacken for the work, and it not be done.” But now, make my hands strong.

¹⁰ And when I came to the house of Shemayah son of Delayah, son of Mehĕ

¹¹ And I said, “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the Hĕ

¹² And see, I perceived that Elohim had not sent him, but that he spoke this prophecy against me because Toḇ

¹³ because he was a hireling – that I should be afraid, and do so, and shall sin, and so they could give me an evil name, to reproach me.

¹⁴ My Elohim, remember Toḇ

¹⁵ And the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.

¹⁶ And it came to be, when all our enemies heard, and all the nations around us saw, that they fell greatly in their own eyes, and knew that this work was done by our Elohim.

¹⁷ In those days the nobles of Yehuḏ

¹⁸ For many in Yehuḏ

¹⁹ They were also speaking about his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Toḇ