7. You have also appointed prophets to make this announcement about you in Jerusalem: There is a king in Judah! Now, the king will hear of these reports, so come; let’s talk together.
8. So I sent him this reply: "Nothing that you say has happened. You are simply inventing this."
9. All of them were trying to make us afraid, saying, "They will be discouraged, and the work won’t get finished." But now, God, strengthen me!
10. Later I went to see Shemaiah, Delaiah’s son and Mehetabel’s grandson, who was confined to his house, and he said:"Let’s meet together in God’s house,inside the temple itself.Let’s shut the doors of the temple,for they are coming to kill you;they are coming to kill you tonight!"
11. But I replied, "Should someone like me run away? Who like me would go into the temple to save his life? I won’t go in!"
12. Then I realized that God hadn’t sent him at all but that he spoke this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.