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Nehemiah 6: Plot Against Nehemiah Fails – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | Intimidation, Rumors, and Nehemiah’s Unwavering Resolve

Listen to this clear and engaging audio recording of Nehemiah 6, where Nehemiah faces intimidation and rumors after rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem, and his unwavering resolve to complete the task. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this powerful chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

NEHEMIAH 6 (NIV)

1 When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our
enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to
that time I had not set the doors in the gates—

2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me
this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain
of Ono.”
But they were scheming to harm me;

3 so I sent messengers to them with this
reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the
work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”

4 Four times they sent me the
same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

5 Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message,
and in his hand was an unsealed letter

6 in which was written:
“It is reported among the nations—and Geshem says it is true—that you and the
Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall.
Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king

7 and
have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem:
‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now this report will get back to the king; so
come, let us meet together.”

8 I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you
are just making it up out of your head.”

9 They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too
weak for the work, and it will not be completed.”
But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”

10 One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of
Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of
God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are
coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”

11 But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go
into the temple to save his life? I will not go!”

12 I realized that God had
not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and
Sanballat had hired him.

13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would
commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to
discredit me.

14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done;
remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets
have been trying to intimidate me.

15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-
fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were
afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work
had been done with the help of our God.

17 Also, in those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters to
Tobiah, and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them.

18 For many in Judah were
under oath to him, since he was son-in-law to Shekaniah son of Arah, and his
son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.

19
Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then telling him what I
said. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.