Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), Neh 2:10Neh 2:19Neh 4:1Neh 3:1Neh 3:3Neh 4:6-7Dan 9:25Neh 3:6 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me. 1Ch 8:12Psa 37:12Neh 11:352Sa 20:92Sa 3:27Ecc 4:4Ezk 33:31Jer 41:2
I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?” Jhn 9:4Mat 10:161Ti 4:15-16Luk 14:30Pro 14:15Ecc 9:10
They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way. Luk 18:51Co 15:58Gal 2:5Jdg 16:10Jdg 16:15-20Jdg 16:6Pro 14:15Pro 7:21 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand, 2Co 11:13-152Th 2:102Co 2:112Ki 18:26-28Eph 6:11 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words. Neh 2:191Pe 3:16Ezr 4:12Rom 3:81Pe 2:12-132Co 6:8Ezr 4:15Jer 20:10 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.” Pro 26:24-261Ki 1:181Ki 1:251Ki 1:341Ki 1:72Sa 15:10-12Act 23:15Neh 6:12-13
Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.” Psa 52:2Job 13:4Act 24:12-13Act 25:10Act 25:7Dan 11:27Isa 59:4Jhn 8:44 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands. Psa 138:31Pe 5:101Sa 30:62Co 12:9Eph 3:16Eph 6:10Heb 12:12Isa 41:10
I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.” Jer 36:5Mat 7:15Psa 37:121Ki 6:52Ch 28:242Ch 29:32Ch 29:72Ki 11:3
I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.” Act 21:13Pro 28:1Psa 11:1-2Act 20:24Luk 13:31-33Php 2:17Psa 112:6Psa 112:8 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. Ezk 13:221Co 12:101Co 2:151Pe 5:21Ti 3:32Pe 2:3Act 20:33Ezk 13:19 He was hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me. Jer 20:102Co 11:122Ti 1:7Jas 4:17Neh 6:6Pro 29:51Ti 5:14Act 6:13 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.” Neh 13:292Ti 4:14-151Jn 5:161Ki 22:22-242Ti 3:8Ezk 13:16-17Isa 9:14-15Jer 11:20-23
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. Neh 4:1-2Psa 1:3Dan 9:25Ezr 6:15 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God. Jos 5:1Psa 126:2Neh 4:7Neh 2:10Neh 4:1Act 5:38Num 23:23Exo 14:25 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them. Mat 24:10-12Mic 7:1-6Neh 13:28Neh 3:5Neh 5:7 For there were many in Judah sworn to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife. Ezr 2:5Neh 7:10Neh 3:30Neh 3:4 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. 1Jn 4:5Act 4:18-21Isa 37:10-14Jhn 15:19Jhn 7:7Neh 6:13Neh 6:9Pro 28:4