The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:9 (NKJV)

For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.”
Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

 

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Nehemiah 6:10 (AKJV)
Afterward I came to 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 you; yes, in the night will they come to slay you.

 

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Nehemiah 6:11 (ERV)
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.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:12 (NIV)

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

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:13 (NIV)

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.

 

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Nehemiah 6:14 (KJV)
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.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:15 (NKJV)

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

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:16 (NKJV)

And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

 

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Nehemiah 6:17 (King James 2000 Bible)
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:18 (NKJV)

For many in Judah were pledged to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 6:19 (NKJV)

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.

 

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Nehemiah 7:1 (BST)
And it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

 

[Chester]

Nehemiah 7:2 KJV

That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 7:3 (NRSV)

And I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot; while the gatekeepers are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their watch posts, and others before their own houses.”

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 7:4 (NRSV)

The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.

 

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Nehemiah 7:5 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came up at the first, and I found written therein:

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 7:6 (RSV)

These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnez′zar the king of Babylon had carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 7:7 (RSV)

They came with Zerub′babel, Jeshua, Nehemi′ah, Azari′ah, Raami′ah, Naham′ani, Mor′decai, Bilshan, Mis′pereth, Big′vai, Nehum, Ba′anah.
The number of the men of the people of Israel:

 

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Nehemiah 7:8 (AKJV)
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

 

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Nehemiah 7:9 (ERV)
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.