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12-13 Then I realized that God had not spoken to him, but Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him to scare me and make me sin by fleeing to the Temple; and then they would be able to accuse me.

14 “O my God,” I prayed, “don’t forget all the evil of Tobiah, Sanballat, Noadiah the prophetess, and all the other prophets who have tried to discourage me.”

15 The wall was finally finished in early September[a]—just fifty-two days after we had begun!

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 6:15 early September, or “the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul.”

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