- 信上写着说,外邦人中有风声,迦施慕(就是基善见二章十九节)也说,你和犹大人谋反,修造城墙,你要作他们的王。
- 你又派先知在耶路撒冷指着你宣讲,说在犹大有王。现在这话必传与王知。所以请你来,与我们彼此商议。
- 我就差遣人去见他,说,你所说的这事,一概没有,是你心里捏造的。
- 他们都要使我们惧怕,意思说,他们的手必软弱,以致工作不能成就。神阿,求你坚固我的手。
- 我到了米希大别的孙子,第来雅的儿子示玛雅家里。那时,他闭门不出。他说,我们不如在神的殿里会面,将殿门关锁。因为他们要来杀你,是夜里来杀你。
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- 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
- 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 confer together."
- I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head."
- 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."
- 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."
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