{"id":"NEH.6.1","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":1,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:1","text":"Now it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and unto the rest of our enemies, that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein (though even unto that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),"}
{"id":"NEH.6.2","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":2,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:2","text":"that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief."}
{"id":"NEH.6.3","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":3,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:3","text":"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?"}
{"id":"NEH.6.4","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":4,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:4","text":"And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner."}
{"id":"NEH.6.5","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":5,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:5","text":"Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,"}
{"id":"NEH.6.6","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":6,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:6","text":"wherein was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou art building the wall: and thou wouldest be their king, according to these words."}
{"id":"NEH.6.7","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":7,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:7","text":"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."}
{"id":"NEH.6.8","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":8,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:8","text":"Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart."}
{"id":"NEH.6.9","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":9,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:9","text":"For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands."}
{"id":"NEH.6.10","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":10,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:10","text":"And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, 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."}
{"id":"NEH.6.11","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":11,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:11","text":"And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in."}
{"id":"NEH.6.12","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":12,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:12","text":"And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him."}
{"id":"NEH.6.13","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":13,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:13","text":"For this cause 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."}
{"id":"NEH.6.14","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":14,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:14","text":"Remember, O 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."}
{"id":"NEH.6.15","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":15,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:15","text":"So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days."}
{"id":"NEH.6.16","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":16,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:16","text":"And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard thereof, that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God."}
{"id":"NEH.6.17","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":17,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:17","text":"Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them."}
{"id":"NEH.6.18","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":18,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:18","text":"For there were many in Judah sworn unto 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 to wife."}
{"id":"NEH.6.19","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"NEH","book":"Nehemiah","chapter":6,"verse":19,"reference":"Nehemiah 6:19","text":"Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear."}