Nehemiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Nehemiah 6 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Καθώς δε ήκουσαν ο Σαναβαλλάτ και ο Τωβίας και ο Γησέμ ο Άραψ και οι λοιποί εκ των εχθρών ημών, ότι εγώ ωκοδόμησα το τείχος και δεν έμεινε πλέον χάλασμα εις αυτό, αν και μέχρις εκείνου του καιρού θύρας δεν έστησα επί των πυλών,
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 ο Σαναβαλλάτ και ο Γησέμ απέστειλαν προς εμέ, λέγοντες, Έλθετε, και ας συναχθώμεν ομού εις τινά εκ των κωμών εν τη πεδιάδι Ωνώ. Εβουλεύοντο δε να κάμωσιν εις εμέ κακόν.
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 Και απέστειλα μηνυτάς προς αυτούς, λέγων, Έργον μέγα κάμνω και δεν δύναμαι να καταβώ· διά τι να παύση το έργον, όταν εγώ αφήσας αυτό καταβώ προς εσάς;
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 Και απέστειλαν προς εμέ τετράκις κατά τον τρόπον τούτον· και εγώ απεκρίθην προς αυτούς κατά τον αυτόν τρόπον.
4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
5 Τότε ο Σαναβαλλάτ απέστειλε προς εμέ τον δούλον αυτού κατά τον αυτόν τρόπον, πέμπτην φοράν, με ανοικτήν επιστολήν εις την χείρα αυτού·
5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
6 εν ή ήτο γεγραμμένον, Ηκούσθη μεταξύ των εθνών, και ο Γασμού λέγει, ότι συ και οι Ιουδαίοι βουλεύεσθε να επαναστατήσητε· διά τούτο συ οικοδομείς το τείχος, διά να γείνης βασιλεύς αυτών, κατά τους λόγους τούτους·
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 έτι διώρισας προφήτας, να κηρύττωσι περί σου εν Ιερουσαλήμ, λέγοντες, Είναι βασιλεύς εν Ιούδα· και τώρα θέλει απαγγελθή προς τον βασιλέα κατά τους λόγους τούτους· ελθέ λοιπόν τώρα, και ας συμβουλευθώμεν ομού.
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 Τότε απέστειλα προς αυτόν, λέγων, Δεν είναι τοιαύτα πράγματα καθώς συ λέγεις, αλλά συ πλάττεις αυτά εκ της καρδίας σου.
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 Διότι πάντες ούτοι εφοβέριζον ημάς, λέγοντες, Θέλουσιν εξασθενήσει αι χείρες αυτών από του έργου, και δεν θέλει εκτελεσθή. Τώρα λοιπόν, Θεέ, κραταίωσον τας χείρας μου.
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 Και εγώ υπήγα εις την οικίαν του Σεμαΐα, υιού του Δαλαΐα, υιού του Μεεταβεήλ, όστις ήτο κεκλεισμένος· και είπεν, Ας συνέλθωμεν ομού εις τον οίκον του Θεού, εντός του ναού, και ας κλείσωμεν τας θύρας του ναού· διότι αυτοί έρχονται να σε φονεύσωσι· ναι, την νύκτα έρχονται να σε φονεύσωσιν.
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 Αλλ' εγώ απεκρίθην, Άνθρωπος οποίος εγώ ήθελον φύγει; και τις, οποίος εγώ, ήθελεν εισέλθει εις τον ναόν διά να σώση την ζωήν αυτού; δεν θέλω εισέλθει.
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 Και ιδού, εγνώρισα ότι ο Θεός δεν απέστειλεν αυτόν να προφέρη την προφητείαν ταύτην εναντίον μου· αλλ' ότι ο Τωβίας και ο Σαναβαλλάτ εμίσθωσαν αυτόν.
12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Διά τούτο ήτο μεμισθωμένος, διά να φοβηθώ και να κάμω ούτω και να αμαρτήσω, και να έχωσιν αφορμήν να κακολογήσωσι, διά να με ονειδίσωσι.
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 Μνήσθητι, Θεέ μου, του Τωβία και του Σαναβαλλάτ κατά τα έργα αυτών ταύτα, και έτι της προφητίσσης Νωαδίας και των λοιπών προφητών, οίτινες με εφοβέριζον.
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 Ούτω συνετελέσθη το τείχος κατά την εικοστήν πέμπτην του μηνός Ελούλ, εν πεντήκοντα δύο ημέραις.
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 Και ότε ήκουσαν πάντες οι εχθροί ημών, τότε εφοβήθησαν πάντα τα έθνη τα πέριξ ημών, και εταπεινώθησαν σφόδρα εις τους οφθαλμούς εαυτών· διότι εγνώρισαν ότι παρά του Θεού ημών έγεινε το έργον τούτο.
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 Προσέτι εν ταις ημέραις εκείναις οι πρόκριτοι του Ιούδα έπεμπον συνεχώς τας επιστολάς αυτών προς τον Τωβίαν, και αι του Τωβία ήρχοντο προς αυτούς.
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
18 Διότι ήσαν εν τω Ιούδα πολλοί ώρκισμένοι εις αυτόν, επειδή ήτο γαμβρός του Σεχανία, υιού του Αράχ· και Ιωανάν ο υιός αυτού είχε λάβει την θυγατέρα του Μεσουλλάμ, υιού του Βαραχίου.
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 Μάλιστα διηγούντο ενώπιόν μου τας αγαθοεργίας αυτού, και ανέφερον προς αυτόν τους λόγους μου. Και ο Τωβίας έστελλεν επιστολάς διά να με φοβερίζη.
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
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