Nehemiah 6:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ So I sent him back this answer: “·Nothing you are saying is really happening. [We are not doing what you are saying.] You are just ·making it up [inventing/imagining them] in your own ·mind [^Lheart].”

⁹ Our enemies were trying to ·scare [intimidate; terrorize] us, thinking, “They will get too ·weak [discouraged; ^Ltheir hands will grow slack] to work. Then the wall will not be finished.”

·But I prayed [So now], “God, ·make me strong [^Lstrengthen my hands].”

¹⁰ ·One day [Then] I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. Shemaiah ·had to stay at [was confined to his; ^Cperhaps related to a vow or to ritual uncleanness] home. He said, “Nehemiah, let’s meet in the ·Temple [^Lhouse] of God. Let’s go inside the Temple and ·close [bar] the doors, because men are coming at night to kill you.”