Nehemiah 6:11-13

New International Reader's Version

¹¹ But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Should someone like me go into the temple just to save his life? No! I won’t go!” ¹² I realized that God hadn’t sent Shemaiah. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. That’s why he had prophesied lies about me. ¹³ They had hired him to scare me. They wanted me to commit a sin by doing what he said. That would give me a bad name in the community. People would find fault with me and my work.