14 My God, remember thou Tobiah, and Sanballat according unto these their works, and Noadiah the [a]Prophetess also, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

15 ¶ Notwithstanding the wall was finished on the five and twentieth day of [b]Elul, in two and [c]fifty days.

16 And when all our enemies heard thereof, even all the heathen that were about us, they were afraid, and their courage failed them: for they knew that this work was wrought by our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 6:14 Very grief caused him to pray against such, which under the pretence of being the ministers of God, were adversaries to his glory, and went about to overthrow his Church, declaring also hereby that where there is one true minister of God, the devil hath a great sort of hirelings.
  2. Nehemiah 6:15 Which was the sixth month and contained part of August, and part of September.
  3. Nehemiah 6:15 After that I had sent Sanballat his answer.

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