Nehemiah 6:11-13

Context

6:11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life?¹ I will not go!” 6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat.² 6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I³ would be discredited.⁴

[6:11] ¹tn Heb “go into the temple and live.”

[6:12] ²tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”

[6:13] ³tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

[6:13] ⁴tn Heb “would have a bad name.”