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(The views expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Nehemiah 6:10–14, “Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”
Nehemiah’s enemies even suborned some of his own people to distract him and prevent the work from continuing. One of the men, who should have been on his side because he was Jew, tried to persuade Nehemiah to stay inside his house for the night so that he would be an easy target for an assassin. He saw through this trick and refused to be trapped. He prayed to the Lord to keep him and to punish his enemies.
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