Nehemiah 6:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ I sent a reply to him: “Nothing of what you are saying is true. You have made it all up yourself.”

⁹ They were trying to frighten us into stopping work. I prayed, “But now, God, make me strong!”

¹⁰ About this time I went to visit Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah and grandson of Mehetabel, who was unable to leave his house. He said to me, “You and I must go and hide together in the Holy Place of the Temple and lock the doors, because they are coming to kill you. Any night now they will come to kill you.”