1And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem 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 at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)

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Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 4:1

2Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

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1 Chronicles 8:12, Psalms 37:12, 1 Chronicles 8:12, Psalms 37:12, Nehemiah 11:35

3And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to you.

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Matthew 10:16, John 9:4, Matthew 10:16, John 9:4, 1 Timothy 4:15

4And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.

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Galatians 2:5, Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 14:15, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Luke 18:5

5And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:

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2 Kings 18:26, 2 Kings 18:28, 2 Corinthians 2:11, 2 Corinthians 11:13, 2 Corinthians 11:15

6It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall, and hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end

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Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 2:19, 1 Peter 3:16, Ezra 4:12, Romans 3:8

7Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things: therefore come now, that we may take counsel together.

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Proverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:26, Proverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:26, 2 Samuel 15:10

8And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.

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Psalms 52:2, Psalms 52:2, Job 13:4, Job 13:4, Isaiah 59:4

9For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more:

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Psalms 138:3, Psalms 138:3, Ephesians 3:16, Isaiah 41:10, Nehemiah 4:10

10And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay thee.

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Jeremiah 36:5, Jeremiah 36:5, Matthew 7:15, Psalms 37:12, Matthew 7:15

11And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.

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Acts 21:13, Proverbs 28:1, Acts 21:13, Proverbs 28:1, Acts 20:24

12And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had hired him.

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Ezekiel 13:22, Ezekiel 13:22, 1 Corinthians 12:10, Ezekiel 13:19, Acts 20:33

13For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.

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Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 18:18, Proverbs 29:5, James 4:17

14Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

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Nehemiah 13:29, Nehemiah 13:29, 2 Timothy 4:14, 2 Timothy 4:15, 2 Timothy 4:14

15But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.

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Psalms 1:3, Nehemiah 4:1, Nehemiah 4:2, Ezra 6:15, Daniel 9:25

16And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of God.

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Joshua 5:1, Joshua 5:1, Psalms 126:2, Psalms 126:2, Nehemiah 4:7

17Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.

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Nehemiah 13:28, Nehemiah 5:7, Micah 7:1, Micah 7:6, Matthew 24:10

18For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son in law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to wife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.

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Ezra 2:5, Ezra 2:5, Nehemiah 7:10, Nehemiah 7:10, Nehemiah 3:30

19And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.

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Acts 4:18, Acts 4:21, Proverbs 28:4, John 15:19, Isaiah 37:10