InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Neh C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13
Neh 6 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Sanballat · Tobiah (NEH 2:10)
OET-LV And_I_recognized and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE not god he_had_sent_him if/because the_prophecy he_had_spoken on_me and_Ţōⱱiyyāh and_Şanⱱallaţ he_had_hired_him.
OET (OET-RV) Then I suddenly realised that God hadn’t told him to say that, but rather he was working against me because he’d been paid by Toviyah and Sanvalat.
וָאַכִּ֕ירָה וְהִנֵּ֥ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,I,recognized and=see/lo/see! not ʼElohīm he,had_sent_him that/for/because/then/when the,prophecy he/it_had_said on,me and,Tobiah and,Sanballat he,had_hired_him )
The term “behold” is used to focus attention on the words that follow. Within this episode as a whole, it creates the impression of Nehemiah suddenly realizing something that had not been clear to him before. Alternate translation: [All of a sudden I realized]
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
לֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֖ים שְׁלָח֑וֹ
not ʼElohīm (Some words not found in UHB: and,I,recognized and=see/lo/see! not ʼElohīm he,had_sent_him that/for/because/then/when the,prophecy he/it_had_said on,me and,Tobiah and,Sanballat he,had_hired_him )
Shemaiah seems to have been pretending that God had revealed to him prophetically that people would be coming secretly at night to kill Nehemiah. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this explicitly. Alternate translation: [God had not given Shemaiah a prophetic message for me]
כִּ֤י הַנְּבוּאָה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלַ֔י וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and,I,recognized and=see/lo/see! not ʼElohīm he,had_sent_him that/for/because/then/when the,prophecy he/it_had_said on,me and,Tobiah and,Sanballat he,had_hired_him )
Alternate translation: [Instead, he was saying these things to hinder my work because Tobiah and Sanballat had paid him to say them]
OET-LV And_I_recognized and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE not god he_had_sent_him if/because the_prophecy he_had_spoken on_me and_Ţōⱱiyyāh and_Şanⱱallaţ he_had_hired_him.
OET (OET-RV) Then I suddenly realised that God hadn’t told him to say that, but rather he was working against me because he’d been paid by Toviyah and Sanvalat.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.