Nehemiah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Nehemiah 6 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Cuando Sanbalat, Tobías, Gesem el árabe y los demás enemigos nuestros supieron que yo había reconstruido la muralla y que ya no quedaba ninguna brecha, aunque todavía no había colocado las puertas en sus entradas,
1 Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
2 Sanbalat y Gesem me mandaron este mensaje: «Ven, reunámonos en uno de los pueblos de la llanura de Ono». Pero ellos pensaban hacerme daño.
2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
3 Entonces les envié mensajeros con esta respuesta: «Estoy haciendo una gran obra y no puedo bajar. ¿Por qué habría de detenerse el trabajo mientras lo dejo para ir a verlos?».
3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”
4 Cuatro veces me enviaron el mismo mensaje, y las cuatro veces les di la misma respuesta.
4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
5 Entonces Sanbalat me envió por quinta vez a su servidor con una carta abierta en la mano.
5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
6 La carta decía: «Se dice entre las naciones, y Gesem también lo afirma, que tú y los judíos piensan rebelarse contra el rey. Por eso estás reconstruyendo la muralla, y según estos informes tú quieres convertirte en su rey.
6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
7 También se dice que has puesto profetas en Jerusalén para proclamar acerca de ti: “¡Hay un rey en Judá!”. Estas cosas llegarán a oídos del rey. Ven, pues, y hablemos de esto».
7 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”
8 Yo le envié esta respuesta: «Nada de lo que dices está sucediendo. Todo eso lo has inventado tú mismo».
8 Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”
9 Ellos querían asustarnos, pensando: «Se debilitarán sus manos y abandonarán el trabajo, y así no se terminará». Pero ahora, Dios mío, fortalece mis manos.
9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
10 Fui a la casa de Semaías hijo de Delaía, hijo de Mehetabel, que estaba recluido allí. Él me dijo: «Reunámonos en el templo de Dios, dentro del santuario, y cerremos las puertas, porque vienen a matarte. Esta misma noche vendrán a matarte».
10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”
11 Pero yo respondí: «¿Debe huir un hombre como yo? ¿Qué hombre en mi posición entraría en el santuario para salvar su vida? No entraré».
11 I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
12 Entonces comprendí que Dios no lo había enviado. Había pronunciado aquella profecía contra mí porque Tobías y Sanbalat le habían pagado.
12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Le habían pagado para que yo tuviera miedo, hiciera lo que decía y pecara. Así tendrían motivo para hablar mal de mí y avergonzarme.
13 He was hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14 Dios mío, acuérdate de Tobías y Sanbalat por lo que han hecho. Acuérdate también de Noadías la profetisa y de los demás profetas que trataban de asustarme.
14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.”
15 La muralla quedó terminada el día veinticinco del mes de Elul, después de cincuenta y dos días.
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 Cuando todos nuestros enemigos se enteraron, las naciones que nos rodeaban tuvieron miedo y quedaron muy humilladas, porque comprendieron que esta obra había sido hecha con la ayuda de nuestro Dios.
16 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
17 Además, durante aquellos días los nobles de Judá enviaban muchas cartas a Tobías, y las cartas de Tobías llegaban a ellos.
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
18 Muchos en Judá estaban unidos a él por juramento, porque Tobías era yerno de Secanías hijo de Ara, y su hijo Johanán se había casado con una hija de Mesulam hijo de Berequías.
18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
19 Ellos hablaban delante de mí de las buenas obras de Tobías y después le contaban lo que yo decía. Tobías también me enviaba cartas para asustarme.
19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Arah
Named as the father of Shecaniah, Tobiah’s father-in-law.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:18
Delaiah
Named as the father of Shemaiah and son of Mehetabel.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:10
Geshem
Geshem the Arab joined Sanballat and Tobiah in mocking the builders and sent messages to lure Nehemiah to Ono.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 6:1; Nehemiah 6:2
Jehohanan
Tobiah’s son who married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:18
Mehetabel
Named as the father of Delaiah (a man, not the Edomite woman of Genesis 36).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:10
Meshullam
Son of Berechiah who repaired two sections of the wall; his daughter married Jehohanan, Tobiah’s son.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:30; Nehemiah 6:18
Noadiah
Prophetess named with Tobiah and Sanballat among those Nehemiah asked God to remember for trying to intimidate him.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:14
Shecaniah
Son of Arah; Tobiah was his son-in-law, which bound many in Judah to him by oath.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:18
Shemaiah
Son of Delaiah who urged Nehemiah to hide in the temple; Nehemiah realized God had not sent him and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:10
Tobiah
Ammonite official who jeered at the wall, sent intimidating letters, had ties of marriage and oath among Judah’s nobles, and was given a temple storeroom by Eliashib until…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 4:3; Nehemiah 6:17
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 4:6–7
- 2 1 Chronicles 8:12; Psalm 37:12; Nehemiah 11:35; Psalm 37:32; Proverbs 26:24–26
- 3 Matthew 10:16; John 9:4; 1 Timothy 4:15–16; Proverbs 14:15; Luke 14:30
- 4 Luke 18:5; Judges 16:15–20; Proverbs 7:21; Proverbs 14:15; Judges 16:10
- 5 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Kings 18:26–28; Ephesians 6:11
- 6 Nehemiah 2:19; 1 Peter 3:16; Ezra 4:12; Romans 3:8; John 19:13
- 7 Proverbs 26:24–26; 2 Samuel 15:10–12; 1 Kings 1:7; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Kings 1:18
- 8 Psalm 52:2; Job 13:4; Acts 25:10; Psalm 38:12; Daniel 11:27
- 9 Psalm 138:3; 1 Peter 5:10; Ephesians 3:16; Nehemiah 4:10–14; Hebrews 12:12
- 10 Jeremiah 36:5; Matthew 7:15; Psalm 37:12; Ezra 10:31; Psalm 120:2–3
- 11 Proverbs 28:1; Psalm 11:1–2; Acts 21:13; Philippians 2:17; Acts 20:24
- 12 Ezekiel 13:22; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Peter 2:3; Jeremiah 28:15; 1 Timothy 3:3
- 13 Jeremiah 20:10; Proverbs 29:5; Nehemiah 6:6; 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Timothy 1:7
- 14 Nehemiah 13:29; 2 Timothy 4:14–15; Psalm 140:5–11; 1 John 5:16; Revelation 19:20
- 15 Psalm 1:3; Nehemiah 4:1–2; Daniel 9:25; Ezra 6:15
- 16 Psalm 126:2; Joshua 5:1; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 4:1
- 17 Nehemiah 13:28; Nehemiah 3:5; Micah 7:1–6; Matthew 24:10–12; Nehemiah 5:7
- 18 Ezra 2:5; Nehemiah 7:10; Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:30
- 19 Acts 4:18–21; Nehemiah 6:9; Isaiah 37:10–14; Proverbs 28:4; Nehemiah 6:13
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences