Nehemiah 6:8-15

8Then I sent a message to him saying, “Nothing like these things that you are saying has 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, 5God, strengthen my hands.

10When I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, 6who was confined at home, he said, “Let’s meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let’s 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, “7Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the temple 8to save his own life? I will not go in.” 12Then I realized 9that God certainly had not sent him, but he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13He was hired for this reason, 10that I would become frightened and act accordingly and sin, so that they might have an evil report in order that they could taunt me. 1411Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in accordance with these works of theirs, and also Noadiah 12the prophetess and the rest of the prophets, who were trying to frighten me.

15So 13the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.