1When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the…
2Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come,…
3So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I…
4Four times they sent me the same message,…
5The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same…
6that read: “It is reported among the nations—and…
7and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem…
8Then I sent him this reply: “There is…
9For they were all trying to frighten us,…
10Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah…
11But I replied, “Should a man like me…
12I realized that God had not sent him,…
13He had been hired to intimidate me so…
14O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for…
15So the wall was completed in fifty-two days,…
16When all our enemies heard about this, all…
17Also in those days, the nobles of Judah…
18For many in Judah were bound by oath…
19Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s…
