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Nehemiah 6:13 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 6 · verse 13
Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.Nehemiah 6:13 · King James Version
Nehemiah 6:13 in context
11And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
15So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- afraidyârêʼto fearH3372 →
- reportshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
- hiredsâkarto hireH7936 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- sinchâṭâʼproperly, to missH2398 →
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The Jews' enemies leave no stone unturned, no way untried, to take Nehemiah off from building the wall about Jerusalem. In order to this they had tried to fetch him into the country to them, but in vain; now they try to drive him into the temple for his own safety; let him be any where but at his work.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-14