13. They hired him to frighten me into sinning, so that they could ruin my reputation and humiliate me.
14. I prayed, “God, remember what Tobiah and Sanballat have done and punish them. Remember that woman Noadiah and all the other prophets who tried to frighten me.”
15. After 52 days of work the entire wall was finished on the 25th day of the month of Elul.
16. When our enemies in the surrounding nations heard this, they realized that they had lost face, since everyone knew that the work had been done with God's help.
17. During all this time the Jewish leaders had been in correspondence with Tobiah.
18. Many people in Judah were on his side because of his Jewish father-in-law, Shecaniah son of Arah. In addition, his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.
19. People would talk in front of me about all the good deeds Tobiah had done and would tell him everything I said. And he kept sending me letters to try to frighten me.