Nehemiah 6:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ All of them were trying to frighten us. They thought, “Their hands will get too weak to do the work. So it won’t be completed.”

But I prayed to God. I said, “Make my hands stronger.”

¹⁰ One day I went to Shemaiah’s house. He was the son of Delaiah. Delaiah was the son of Mehetabel. Shemaiah had shut himself up in his home. He said, “Let’s go to God’s house. Let’s meet inside the temple and close the doors. Some men are coming at night to kill you.”

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!”