Nehemiah 6:8-10

The Message

⁸ I sent him back this: “There’s nothing to what you’re saying. You’ve made it all up.”

⁹ They were trying to intimidate us into quitting. They thought, “They’ll give up; they’ll never finish it.”

I prayed, “Give me strength.”

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¹⁰ Then I met secretly with Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, at his house. He said: