13. and to frighten me into doing something wrong, because they wanted to ruin my good name.
14. Then I asked God to punish Tobiah and Sanballat for what they had done. I prayed that God would punish the prophet Noadiah and the other prophets who, together with her, had tried to frighten me.
15. On the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, the wall was completely rebuilt. It had taken fifty-two days.
16. When our enemies in the surrounding nations learnt that the work was finished, they felt helpless, because they knew that our God had helped us rebuild the wall.
17. All this time the Jewish leaders and Tobiah had been writing letters back and forth.
18. Many people in Judah were loyal to Tobiah for two reasons: Shecaniah son of Arah was his father-in-law, and Tobiah's son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.
19. The people would always tell me about the good things Tobiah had done, and then they would tell Tobiah everything I had said. So Tobiah kept sending letters, trying to frighten me.