Nehemiah 6
1 Sanballat practises by craft, by rumours, and by hired prophecies, to terrify Nehemiah.
15 The work is finished, to the terror of the enemies.
17 Secret intelligence passes between the enemies and the nobles of Judah.
Sanballat <05571> [when Sanballat.]
Geshem <01654> [Geshem.]
[Gashmu. no breach.]
time <06256> [at that time.]
<03212> [Come.]
They wished to get him out of Jerusalem, from his friends, that they might either carry him off or murder him.
Ono <0207> [Ono.]
intended <02803> [they thought.]
sent <07971> [And I sent.]
<06213> [I am doing.]
four times <06471 0702> [four times.]
responded <07725> [and I answered.]
open letter <06605 0107> [with an open letter.]
This was a gross insult to a person of Nehemiah's quality; as the letters sent to chiefs and governors in the East are always carefully folded up, put in silk bags, and then sealed.
rumored <08085> [It is reported.]
Geshem <01654> [Gashmu.]
[Geshem. that thou and.]
become <01933> [that thou mayest.]
established <05975> [appointed.]
king ...... king <04428> [a king.]
talk about this <03212 03289> [Come now.]
engaged <01961> [There are.]
imagination <0908> [thou feignest.]
were .... scare <03372> [For they.]
hands ................. hands <03027> [Their hands.]
strengthen <02388> [Now therefore.]
Shemaiah <08098> [Shemaiah.]
confined ......... up ... time <06113> [shut up.]
meet <03259> [Let us meet.]
house ............................ house <01004> [the house.]
close <05462> [let us shut.]
night <03915> [in the night.]
like ....... like me <03644> [Should such.]
flee .............. go <0935> [would go.]
recognized <05234> [I perceived.]
God .... sent <0430 07971> [God had.]
agent <07936> [hired him.]
scare <03372> [that I should.]
sin <02398> [and sin.]
reproach <07451> [and that they.]
discredited <08034 02778> [report, that.]
God <0430> [My God.]
Remember ..... Tobiah <02142 02900> [think thou.]
prophetess <05031> [on the prophetess.]
wall <02346> [wall.]
fifty-two <02572> [fifty.]
enemies <0341> [when all our enemies.]
knew <03045> [for they perceived.]
aristocrats <02715> [the nobles.]
letters ... Tobiah ... responses ... Tobiah <01980 07235 0107 02900> [sent many letters unto Tobiah. Heb. multiplied their letters passing to Tobiah.]
Arah <0733> [Arah.]
Meshullam <04918> [Meshullam.]
said <0559> [they reported.]
things <01697> [words. or, matters. to put.]
