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6 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Gashmu the Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (though I had not yet erected the doors in the gateways), 2 Sanballat and Gashmu sent to ask me, “Come, let us meet at some village in the plain of Ono.” They meant harm to me. 3 But I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop, while I leave it and come down to you?” 4 They sent four times, to the same effect, and I answered them to the same effect. 5 The fifth time Sanballat sent, his servant brought me an open letter. 6 He wrote: “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says so, that you and the Jews mean to rebel, and that this is why you are building the wall; you are to be their king—-so people say. 7 You have even set up prophets at Jerusalem to proclaim, ‘There is a king in Judah’--meaning yourself. Now the king will be told what people say. So come and let us talk over the matter.” 8 Then I sent him this message: “Nothing of what you say has taken place; you are making it up, yourself!” 9 (For they all wanted to terrify us; they thought, “Their hands will drop the work, and it will never be done.” But now, strengthen thou my hands!)
10 When I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who kept himself apart, he said, “Let us meet in the house of God, in the temple, with shut doors, for they are coming to kill you--yes,coming to kill you by night!” 11 But I said, “Is a man like me to run away? Besides, who would go into the temple, simply to save his life? I will not go in!” 12 I detected at once that he had no mission from God; he was acting as a prophet against me, for Tobiah and Sanballat had bribed him, to terrify me into this act of sin, that it might be a scandal, and that they might sneer at me. 14 O my God, remember all this against Tobiah and Sanballat and the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have scared me!
15 On the twenty-fifth day of 15 Elul, the wall was finished, in fifty-two days. 16 When all our enemies heard this, when the surrounding foreigners saw it, they were sorely disconcerted; they realized that it was the work of God. 17 But all the time many letters had been passing from the authorities of Judah to Tobiah, and from Tobiah to them; 18 many within Judah had conspired with him, for he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah. 19 They would tell me about his virtues, and tell him anything I said. Indeed, Tobiah himself used to send letters to scare me.