Nehemiah 6:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹ I answered, “Why should someone like me have to run and hide in the temple to save my life? I won't go!”

¹² Suddenly I realized that God had not given Shemaiah this message. But Tobiah and Sanballat had paid him to trick me ¹³ and to frighten me into doing something wrong, because they wanted to ruin my good name.