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10 One day I went to visit Shemaiah.[a] He wasn't supposed to leave his house, but he said, “Let's hurry to the holy place of the temple and hide there.[b] We will lock the temple doors, because your enemies are planning to kill you tonight.”

11 I answered, “Why should someone like me have to run and hide in the temple to save my life? I won't go!”

12 Suddenly I realized that God had not given Shemaiah this message. But Tobiah and Sanballat had paid him to trick me

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Footnotes

  1. 6.10 Shemaiah: Hebrew “Shemaiah son of Delaiah son of Mehetabel.”
  2. 6.10 holy place … hide there: Only priests were allowed to enter the holy place; anyone else could be put to death.

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