They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way. Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same manner a fifth time with an open letter in his hand. In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and [a]Gashmu says, that (A)you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 6:6 In v 1 and elsewhere, Geshem