Verse 8

Nehemiah 6:8

Free Bible Version

8 I replied, telling him, “Nothing's happening like you're saying! In fact you're just making it all up!”

Original Language Text

hebrew

וָ/אֶשְׁלְחָ֤/ה אֵלָי/ו֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר לֹ֤א נִֽהְיָה֙ כַּ/דְּבָרִ֣ים הָ/אֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֖ר אַתָּ֣ה אוֹמֵ֑ר כִּ֥י מִֽ/לִּבְּ/ךָ֖ אַתָּ֥ה בוֹדָֽא/ם

English Translation

And I will send to you, saying, "These things that you are saying have not happened, for it is from your own heart that you are speaking."

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Chapter 6 Context

1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and our other enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and... Focus ↗

2 they sent a message to me, saying, “Come on, let's meet in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”... Focus ↗

3 So I sent messengers to tell them, “I'm busy with important work and I can't come down. Why should I... Focus ↗

4 They sent me the same message four times, and every time my reply was the same. Focus ↗

5 Sanballat sent me the same message the fifth time by his servant, who brought in his hand an open le... Focus ↗

6 The letter read: “People around are saying, and Geshem confirms it, that you and the Jews are planni... Focus ↗

7 and you have even arranged for prophets in Jerusalem to announce for you, ‘There is a king in Judah.... Focus ↗

8 I replied, telling him, “Nothing's happening like you're saying! In fact you're just making it all u...

9 They were all just trying to scare us, telling themselves, “They won't have the strength to work so... Focus ↗

10 Later on, I went to Shemaiah's house (he was the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel) who had shut hims... Focus ↗

11 I replied, “Should someone like me run away? Should someone like me go and hide in the Temple so I c... Focus ↗

12 I thought about it and saw that God (Elohim) hadn't sent him, but that he had spoken this prophecy a... Focus ↗

13 They'd hired him thinking I'd be scared into doing something wrong. Then they'd be able to point the... Focus ↗

14 My God (Elohim), remember Tobiah and Sanballat for doing this, and Noadiah the prophetess and the ot... Focus ↗

15 The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul. It took fifty-two days. Focus ↗

16 When all our enemies found out they were frightened; all the nations around were very discouraged, f... Focus ↗

17 At that time the nobles of Judah were exchanging many letters with Tobiah, Focus ↗

18 because many people in Judah had sworn an oath of loyalty to him as he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah... Focus ↗

19 They kept on telling me all the good things Tobiah was doing, and they reported to him what I said.... Focus ↗

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