Nehemiah 6:8-10

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⁸ I sent this reply: ‘What you say is not true. Nothing like that is happening. You are only speaking your own ideas.’

⁹ All our enemies wanted to frighten us. They thought, ‘The Jews will be so afraid that they will not be able to work well. They will not finish building the wall.’

So I prayed to God, ‘Give me strength to continue the work.’

¹⁰ One day I went to Shemaiah's house.^[a] He was the son of Delaiah, Mehetabel's son. He could not go out of his house. He said to me, ‘Meet me inside the temple of God. We will close the temple's doors. Our enemies are coming to kill you. One night soon, they will come to kill you.’