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Nehemiah 6:8-10
New International Reader's Version
Nehemiah 6:8-10
New International Reader's Version
8 I sent a reply to Sanballat. I said, “What you are saying isn’t really happening. You are just making it up.”
9 All of them were trying to frighten us. They thought, “Their hands will get too weak to do the work. So it won’t be completed.”
But I prayed to God. I said, “Make my hands stronger.”
10 One day I went to Shemaiah’s house. He was the son of Delaiah. Delaiah was the son of Mehetabel. Shemaiah had shut himself up in his home. He said, “Let’s go to God’s house. Let’s meet inside the temple and close the doors. Some men are coming at night to kill you.”
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