Nehemiah 6:11-13

English Standard Version

¹¹ But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live?^[a] I will not go in.” ¹² And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, ^(A)but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. ¹³ For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me.