Then I sent unto him, saying, It is not done according to these words that thou sayest: for thou feignest them of thine own heart.

For all they afraid us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, and it shall not be done: now therefore [a]encourage thou me.

10 ¶ And I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, and he was [b]shut up, and he said, Let us come together into the house of God in the midst of the Temple, and shut the doors of the Temple: for they will come to slay thee: yea, in the night will they come to kill thee.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 6:9 Hebrew, strengthen thou mine hand.
  2. Nehemiah 6:10 As though he would be secret, to the intent that he might pray unto God with greater liberty, and receive some revelation, which in him was but hypocrisy.

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