Nehemiah 6:19

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Moreover, they kept reporting his good deeds to me and sharing my words with him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

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  • Neh 6:9 : 9 For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But now, strengthen my hands!
  • Neh 6:13 : 13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by acting this way. Then they could give me a bad name and discredit me.
  • Prov 28:4 : 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.
  • Isa 37:10-14 : 10 "This is what you are to say to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God, whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. 11 You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands by utterly destroying them. Will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar—deliver them? 13 Where now is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena and Ivvah? 14 Hezekiah received the letters from the messengers, read them, and went up to the house of the LORD. There he spread them out before the LORD.
  • John 7:7 : 7 'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
  • Acts 4:18-21 : 18 So they called them and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John replied, 'Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge.' 20 'For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.' 21 After further threats, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because of the people, since they were all glorifying God for what had happened.
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

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  • Neh 6:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16When all our enemies heard about this, and all the surrounding nations saw it, they lost their confidence because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.

    17Also in those days, the nobles of Judah were sending many letters to Tobiah, and replies from Tobiah were coming to them.

    18For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

  • Neh 6:1-14
    14 verses
    82%

    1When it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (though at that time I had not yet set up the doors in the gates),

    2Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono." But they were planning to harm me.

    3So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?"

    4They sent the same message to me four times, and I gave them the same reply each time.

    5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with the same message, and in his hand was an open letter.

    6In it was written: "It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel. That is why you are building the wall, and you want to be their king, according to these reports.

    7You have even appointed prophets to proclaim on your behalf in Jerusalem, saying, 'There is a king in Judah!' Now this report will get back to the king. So come, let us consult together."

    8I sent a reply to him, saying, "No such things as you are saying have occurred. You are inventing them in your own mind."

    9For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But now, strengthen my hands!

    10I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home. He said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, for they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you."

    11But I said, "Should a man like me run away? How can someone like me enter the temple and live? I will not go!"

    12I realized that God had not sent him, but he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

    13He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by acting this way. Then they could give me a bad name and discredit me.

    14Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these deeds of theirs, also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were trying to intimidate me.

  • Neh 2:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9So I went to the governors of the region beyond the Euphrates and gave them the king's letters. The king also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

    10When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply displeased that someone had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.

  • Neh 13:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7I returned to Jerusalem and understood the evil thing that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.

    8I was greatly displeased, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household belongings out of the room.

  • Neh 13:4
    70%

    4Before this occurred, Eliashib the priest, who had been assigned to the chambers of the house of our God, was closely associated with Tobiah.

  • Neh 2:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18I told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, "Let us arise and build!" So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

    19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arabian heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

  • Zech 6:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    10'Take from the exiles—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon—and go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah on the same day.

  • Jer 20:10
    69%

    10I hear many whispering, 'Terror on every side! Report him! Let’s report him!' All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, 'Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.'

  • Neh 4:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3So we prayed to our God and set a guard against them day and night because of their threats.

    4Then Judah said, 'The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubble that we are unable to rebuild the wall.'

  • Jer 36:16
    68%

    16When they heard all the words, they turned to each other in fear and said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."

  • Neh 7:2
    68%

    2I put my brother Hanani and Hananiah, the commander of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most people.

  • Neh 5:9
    67%

    9Then I said, 'What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of the nations, our enemies?'

  • Neh 4:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7So I stationed people in the lowest parts behind the wall, in the open areas, and I positioned them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

    8Then I saw what was happening; I stood and addressed the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, 'Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.'

  • Neh 13:28
    67%

    28Even one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.

  • Neh 2:2
    67%

    2The king asked me, "Why do you look so sad? You are not ill. This can only be sadness of heart." I was very afraid.

  • Mal 2:5
    66%

    5My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

  • Neh 4:14
    66%

    14Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather to us there. Our God will fight for us.

  • Neh 4:12
    66%

    12Every builder had his sword strapped to his side as he worked, and the one who sounded the trumpet stood beside me.

  • Ps 31:13
    65%

    13I am forgotten like someone dead and gone; I have become like a broken vessel.

  • Ezra 5:6
    65%

    6This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of the region beyond the River, Shethar-Bozenai, and their companions, the officials of the region beyond the River, sent to King Darius.

  • Neh 1:2-4
    3 verses
    65%

    2Hanani, one of my brothers, came with some men from Judah, and I asked them about the Jews who had survived the exile and about Jerusalem.

    3They said to me, 'Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.'

    4When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned, fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.

  • Zech 8:15
    65%

    15so now I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid.

  • Jer 1:8
    65%

    8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,' declares the LORD.

  • Neh 2:16
    65%

    16The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or any others who would be doing the work.

  • Ezra 6:6
    64%

    6Now then, Tattenai, governor of the region Beyond the River, Shethar-Bozenai, and your colleagues, the officials in the province Beyond the River, keep away from there.

  • Neh 5:6
    64%

    6When I heard their outcry and these words, I became extremely angry.