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Nehemiah Chapter 6

Nehemiah
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Nehemiah

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Nehemiah records the people’s gathering in the marketplace to defy the king’s order to rebuild the wall, and their prayer for God’s protection. The chapter shows the conflict between obedience and resistance, emphasizing God’s faithfulness to deliver His people. It also underscores the value of unity, prayer, and trust in divine providence.

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(1) Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
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Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 4:1Nehemiah 4:7Nehemiah 4:6Daniel 9:25Nehemiah 3:1Nehemiah 3:3Nehemiah 3:6

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Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 4:1Joshua 21:44I Chronicles 22:9Nehemiah 6:14

(2) That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
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II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 20:9Psalms 37:12Proverbs 26:24Proverbs 26:25Proverbs 26:26Ecclesiastes 4:4Nehemiah 11:35I Chronicles 8:12Psalms 12:2Psalms 37:32Jeremiah 41:2

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Nehemiah 11:25Ephesians 4:11II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23Mark 4:8

(3) And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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Proverbs 14:15Matthew 10:16Ecclesiastes 9:10Luke 14:30John 9:4I Timothy 4:15I Timothy 4:16

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Genesis 44:22Jeremiah 14:9I Samuel 1:8

(4) Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
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Judges 16:6Judges 16:10Judges 16:15Judges 16:16Judges 16:17Judges 16:18Judges 16:19Judges 16:20Proverbs 7:21Luke 18:5I Corinthians 15:58Galatians 2:5

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Ezekiel 48:16Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Ezekiel 1:10Revelation 7:1Joshua 6:15

(5) Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
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II Kings 18:26II Kings 18:27II Kings 18:28II Corinthians 2:11II Corinthians 11:13II Corinthians 11:14II Corinthians 11:15Ephesians 6:11II Thessalonians 2:10

(6) Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
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Jeremiah 9:3Jeremiah 9:4Jeremiah 9:5Jeremiah 9:6Jeremiah 20:10Matthew 5:11Romans 3:8II Corinthians 6:8I Peter 2:12I Peter 2:13I Peter 3:16Nehemiah 6:1

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Deuteronomy 30:20Joshua 22:19Revelation 3:18Romans 12:3II Chronicles 26:6Esther 8:9

(7) And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
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Nehemiah 6:12Nehemiah 6:13II Samuel 15:10II Samuel 15:11II Samuel 15:12I Kings 1:7I Kings 1:18I Kings 1:25I Kings 1:34Proverbs 26:24Proverbs 26:25Proverbs 26:26

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II Samuel 17:14

(8) Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
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Acts 24:12Acts 24:13Acts 25:7Acts 25:10Job 13:4Psalms 36:3Psalms 38:12Psalms 52:2Isaiah 59:4Daniel 11:27Matthew 12:34John 8:44

(9) For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
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Nehemiah 6:14Nehemiah 4:10Nehemiah 4:11Nehemiah 4:12Nehemiah 4:13Nehemiah 4:14II Chronicles 32:18II Chronicles 15:7Ezra 4:1Ezra 4:2Ezra 4:3Ezra 4:4

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(10) Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
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Nehemiah 6:12Ezra 8:16Ezra 10:31Proverbs 11:9Matthew 7:15II Kings 9:8Jeremiah 36:5Ezekiel 3:24Psalms 12:2Psalms 37:12Psalms 120:2Psalms 120:3

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II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 7:4I Corinthians 3:17Acts 21:30

(11) And 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.
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Nehemiah 6:3I Samuel 19:5Job 4:3Job 4:4Job 4:5Job 4:6Psalms 11:1Psalms 11:2Psalms 112:6Psalms 112:8Proverbs 28:1Isaiah 10:18

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II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 7:4I Corinthians 3:17

(12) And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
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Ezekiel 13:22I Corinthians 2:15I Corinthians 12:10Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 23:16Jeremiah 23:25Jeremiah 28:15Ezekiel 13:7I John 4:1Isaiah 56:11Ezekiel 13:19Micah 3:11

(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.
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Proverbs 29:5Isaiah 51:7Isaiah 51:12Isaiah 51:13Isaiah 57:11Jeremiah 1:17Ezekiel 2:6Ezekiel 13:17Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:19Ezekiel 13:20Ezekiel 13:21

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(14) My 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.
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Nehemiah 5:19Psalms 22:1Psalms 63:1Nehemiah 4:4Nehemiah 4:5Nehemiah 13:29Psalms 36:11Psalms 36:12Psalms 140:5Psalms 140:6Psalms 140:7Psalms 140:8

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Nehemiah 6:1Hebrews 4:3Romans 12:3Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

(15) So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
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Ezra 6:15Psalms 1:3Daniel 9:25Nehemiah 4:1Nehemiah 4:2

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Esther 3:7I Chronicles 27:8II Chronicles 2:10II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17II Kings 25:8

(16) And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
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Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 4:1Nehemiah 4:7Nehemiah 6:1Nehemiah 6:2Exodus 14:25Numbers 23:23Joshua 5:1Psalms 126:2Acts 5:38

(17) Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
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Nehemiah 3:5Nehemiah 5:7Nehemiah 13:28Micah 7:1Micah 7:2Micah 7:3Micah 7:4Micah 7:5Micah 7:6Matthew 24:10Matthew 24:11Matthew 24:12

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I Kings 21:8Nehemiah 6:19Nehemiah 2:7I Kings 21:11

(18) For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
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Nehemiah 7:10Ezra 2:5Nehemiah 3:4Nehemiah 3:30

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(19) Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
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Proverbs 28:4John 7:7John 15:19I John 4:5Nehemiah 6:9Nehemiah 6:13Isaiah 37:10Isaiah 37:11Isaiah 37:12Isaiah 37:13Isaiah 37:14Acts 4:18

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Nehemiah 6:17

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