These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Nehemiah 6
Tanakh 19 verses
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Now it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and unto the rest of our enemies, that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein—though even unto that time I had not set up the doors in the gates—
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- 2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying: ‘Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.’ But they thought to do me mischief.
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And I sent messengers unto them, saying: ‘I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?’
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And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
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Then sent Sanballat his unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
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- 6 wherein was written: ‘It is reported among the nations, and Geshem saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou buildest the wall; and thou wouldest be their , even according to these words.
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And thou hast also appointed prophets to proclaim of thee at , saying: There is a in ; and now shall it be reported to the according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.’
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Then I sent unto him, saying: ‘There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own .’
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For they all would have us afraid, saying: ‘Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.’ But now, strengthen Thou my hands.
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- 10 And as for me, I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said: ‘Let us meet together in the house of , within the , and let us shut the doors of the ; for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.’
- 11 And I said: ‘Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, could go into the and live? I will not go in.’
- 12 And I discerned, and, lo, had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
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For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might taunt me.
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Jeremiah 18:18 Proverbs 29:5 James 4:17 Jeremiah 20:10 Nehemiah 6:6 Titus 2:8 Isaiah 57:11 Acts 6:13 Matthew 26:59 Isaiah 51:7 Matthew 10:28 Isaiah 51:12-13 Proverbs 22:1 2 Corinthians 11:12 Revelation 21:8 Matthew 22:15 Jeremiah 1:17 Ezekiel 2:6 Ecclesiastes 7:1 Ezekiel 13:17-23 1 Timothy 5:14 Daniel 6:4-5 2 Timothy 1:7 -
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Remember, O my , Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have me put in .
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Nehemiah 13:29 2 Timothy 4:14-15 Jeremiah 28:1 Revelation 19:20 Psalm 36:11-12 Jeremiah 14:18 Ezekiel 13:16-17 Nehemiah 4:4-5 Psalm 140:5-11 Jeremiah 28:10 Psalm 22:1 Jeremiah 14:15 1 Kings 22:22-24 Matthew 24:11 1 John 5:16 Matthew 7:15 Jeremiah 11:20-23 Nehemiah 5:19 Jeremiah 28:15 2 Timothy 3:8 Psalm 63:1 Matthew 24:24 Jeremiah 18:20-23 Isaiah 9:14-15 -
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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
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And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard thereof, that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was wrought of our .
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Moreover in those days the nobles of sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
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For there were many in sworn unto him, because he was the son-in- of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah to wife.
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Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in .
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