Nehemiah 6:8-15

8Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are 1inventing them 2in your own mind.” 9For all of them were trying to frighten us, 3thinking, “4They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, 5O God, strengthen my hands.

10When I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, 6who was 7confined at home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you, and they are coming to kill you at night.” 11But I said, “8Should a man like me flee? And could one such as I go into the temple 9to save his life? I will not go in.” 12Then I perceived 10that surely God had not sent him, but he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13He was hired for this reason, 11that I might become frightened and act accordingly and sin, so that they might have an evil report in order that they could reproach me. 1412Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also Noadiah 13the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were trying to frighten me.

15So 14the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.