Nehemiah 6:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

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  • 2 Kgs 18:26-28 : 26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it, and do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall. 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men sitting on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you? 28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Hebrew and spoke, saying, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  • 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 Lest Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Eph 6:11 : 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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  • Neh 6:1-4
    4 verses
    86%

    1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall, and there was no gap in it; (though at that time I had not set up the doors on the gates;)

    2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they planned to harm me.

    3 And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work stop, while I leave it and come down to you?

    4 Yet they sent to me four times in this manner; and I answered them in the same way.

  • Neh 6:6
    78%

    6 In which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says it, that you and the Jews plan to rebel: therefore you are building the wall, that you may be their king, according to these reports.

  • Neh 6:8-17
    10 verses
    74%

    8 Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.

    9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened from the work, so that it will not be done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

    10 Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you.

    11 And I said, Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me, who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

    12 And, indeed, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

    13 Therefore he was hired, that I should be afraid, and act that way, and sin, so they might have cause for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

    14 My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, who would have made me afraid.

    15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

    16 And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they realized that this work was done by our God.

    17 Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them.

  • Neh 4:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

    2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish that are burned?

  • Neh 2:7-11
    5 verses
    73%

    7 Moreover, I said to the king, If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors beyond the river, that they may allow me to pass through until I come to Judah;

    8 And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which pertain to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

    9 Then I went to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

    10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

    11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

  • Ezra 5:3-9
    7 verses
    72%

    3 At the same time, Tatnai, governor on this side of the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, came to them and said, Who has commanded you to build this house and to finish this wall?

    4 Then we said to them in this manner, What are the names of the men who are building this building?

    5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, so that they could not make them stop until the matter was reported to Darius: and then they returned an answer by letter concerning this matter.

    6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side of the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were on this side of the river, sent to Darius the king:

    7 They sent a letter to him, in which was written: To Darius the king, all peace.

    8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls, and this work is going on rapidly and prospers in their hands.

    9 Then we asked those elders and said to them, Who commanded you to build this house and to finish these walls?

  • Neh 2:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, and also the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

    19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? Will you rebel against the king?

  • Neh 4:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together up to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

    7 But it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were repaired, and the breaches began to be stopped, they were very angry,

    8 And all of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

  • Ezra 4:8
    70%

    8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this way:

  • Ezra 4:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and to the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.

    18 The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.

  • Neh 6:19
    70%

    19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.

  • Ezra 4:11
    69%

    11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him, even to Artaxerxes the king; Your servants the men on this side of the river, and at such a time.

  • Neh 5:16
    69%

    16 Indeed, I also devoted myself to the work on this wall and did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work.

  • Neh 4:12
    68%

    12 And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us.

  • Ezra 6:6
    68%

    6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the river, keep far from there:

  • Ezra 6:13
    67%

    13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, acted according to what King Darius had sent, and they did so speedily.

  • Zech 6:9
    67%

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

  • Neh 1:2
    67%

    2 That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 4:6
    66%

    6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, at the start of his reign, they wrote to him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 5:11
    66%

    11 And they returned an answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.

  • Neh 13:21
    66%

    21 Then I warned them, and said to them, Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

  • Ezra 4:1
    66%

    1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to the LORD God of Israel,

  • Neh 2:15
    66%

    15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.