Nehemiah 6:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
9 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.
11 Then I said, [c]Should such a man as I, flee? Who is he, being as I am, that would go into the Temple to live? I will not go in.
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- Nehemiah 6:9 Hebrew, strengthen thou mine hand.
- 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.
- Nehemiah 6:11 He doubted not but God was able to preserve him, and knew that if he had obeyed this counsel he should have discouraged all the people: thus God giveth power to his to resist false prophecies, though they seem to have never so great probability.
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