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Nehemiah 6 Clementine Vulgate

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1 Factum est autem, cum audisset Sanaballat, et Tobias, et Gossem Arabs, et ceteri inimici nostri, quod ædificassem ego murum, et non esset in ipso residua interruptio (usque ad tempus autem illud valvas non posueram in portis),
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 miserunt Sanaballat et Gossem ad me, dicentes: Veni, et percutiamus fœdus pariter in viculis in campo Ono. Ipsi autem cogitabant ut facerent mihi malum.
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 Misi ergo ad eos nuntios, dicens: Opus grande ego facio, et non possum descendere, ne forte negligatur cum venero, et descendero ad vos.
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 Miserunt autem ad me secundum verbum hoc per quatuor vices: et respondi eis juxta sermonem priorem.
4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
5 Et misit ad me Sanaballat juxta verbum prius quinta vice puerum suum, et epistolam habebat in manu sua scriptam hoc modo:
5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
6 In gentibus auditum est, et Gossem dixit, quod tu et Judæi cogitetis rebellare, et propterea ædifices murum, et levare te velis super eos regem: propter quam causam
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 et prophetas posueris, qui prædicent de te in Jerusalem, dicentes: Rex in Judæa est. Auditurus est rex verba hæc: idcirco nunc veni, ut ineamus consilium pariter.
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 Et misi ad eos, dicens: Non est factum secundum verba hæc, quæ tu loqueris: de corde enim tuo tu componis hæc.
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 Omnes enim hi terrebant nos, cogitantes quod cessarent manus nostræ ab opere, et quiesceremus: quam ob causam magis confortavi manus meas.
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 Et ingressus sum domum Semaiæ filii Dalaiæ filii Metabeel secreto. Qui ait: Tractemus nobiscum in domo Dei in medio templi, et claudamus portas ædis: quia venturi sunt ut interficiant te, et nocte venturi sunt ad occidendum te.
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 Et dixi: Num quisquam similis mei fugit? et quis ut ego ingredietur templum, et vivet? non ingrediar.
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 Et intellexi quod Deus non misisset eum, sed quasi vaticinans locutus esset ad me, et Tobias et Sanaballat conduxissent eum.
12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Acceperat enim pretium, ut territus facerem, et peccarem, et haberent malum quod exprobrarent mihi.
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 Memento mei, Domine, pro Tobia et Sanaballat, juxta opera eorum talia: sed et Noadiæ prophetæ, et ceterorum prophetarum, qui terrebant me.
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 Completus est autem murus vigesimo quinto die mensis Elul, quinquaginta duobus diebus.
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 Factum est ergo cum audissent omnes inimici nostri, ut timerent universæ gentes quæ erant in circuitu nostro, et conciderent intra semetipsos, et scirent quod a Deo factum esset opus hoc.
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 Sed et in diebus illis multæ optimatum Judæorum epistolæ mittebantur ad Tobiam, et a Tobia veniebant ad eos.
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
18 Multi enim erant in Judæa habentes juramentum ejus, quia gener erat Secheniæ filii Area, et Johanan filius ejus acceperat filiam Mosollam filii Barachiæ:
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 sed et laudabant eum coram me, et verba mea nuntiabant ei: et Tobias mittebat epistolas ut terreret me.
19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

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  • Arah

    Father of Shecaniah

    Named as the father of Shecaniah, Tobiah’s father-in-law.

    Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:18

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  • Delaiah

    Father of Shemaiah

    Named as the father of Shemaiah and son of Mehetabel.

    Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:10

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  • Geshem

    Arab opponent of Nehemiah

    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

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  • Jehohanan

    Son of Tobiah

    Tobiah’s son who married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

    Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:18

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  • Mehetabel

    Father of Delaiah

    Named as the father of Delaiah (a man, not the Edomite woman of Genesis 36).

    Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 6:10

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  • Meshullam

    Wall builder

    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

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  • Noadiah

    Prophetess who opposed Nehemiah

    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

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  • Shecaniah

    Father-in-law of Tobiah

    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

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  • Shemaiah

    Hired false prophet

    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

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  • Tobiah

    Ammonite official opposing Nehemiah

    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

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Cross references (19)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 4:6–7
  2. 2 1 Chronicles 8:12; Psalm 37:12; Nehemiah 11:35; Psalm 37:32; Proverbs 26:24–26
  3. 3 Matthew 10:16; John 9:4; 1 Timothy 4:15–16; Proverbs 14:15; Luke 14:30
  4. 4 Luke 18:5; Judges 16:15–20; Proverbs 7:21; Proverbs 14:15; Judges 16:10
  5. 5 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Kings 18:26–28; Ephesians 6:11
  6. 6 Nehemiah 2:19; 1 Peter 3:16; Ezra 4:12; Romans 3:8; John 19:13
  7. 7 Proverbs 26:24–26; 2 Samuel 15:10–12; 1 Kings 1:7; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Kings 1:18
  8. 8 Psalm 52:2; Job 13:4; Acts 25:10; Psalm 38:12; Daniel 11:27
  9. 9 Psalm 138:3; 1 Peter 5:10; Ephesians 3:16; Nehemiah 4:10–14; Hebrews 12:12
  10. 10 Jeremiah 36:5; Matthew 7:15; Psalm 37:12; Ezra 10:31; Psalm 120:2–3
  11. 11 Proverbs 28:1; Psalm 11:1–2; Acts 21:13; Philippians 2:17; Acts 20:24
  12. 12 Ezekiel 13:22; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Peter 2:3; Jeremiah 28:15; 1 Timothy 3:3
  13. 13 Jeremiah 20:10; Proverbs 29:5; Nehemiah 6:6; 2 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Timothy 1:7
  14. 14 Nehemiah 13:29; 2 Timothy 4:14–15; Psalm 140:5–11; 1 John 5:16; Revelation 19:20
  15. 15 Psalm 1:3; Nehemiah 4:1–2; Daniel 9:25; Ezra 6:15
  16. 16 Psalm 126:2; Joshua 5:1; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 4:1
  17. 17 Nehemiah 13:28; Nehemiah 3:5; Micah 7:1–6; Matthew 24:10–12; Nehemiah 5:7
  18. 18 Ezra 2:5; Nehemiah 7:10; Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:30
  19. 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