11. But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Should I run for my life into the Temple? I will not go.”
12. I knew that God had not sent him but that Tobiah and Sanballat had paid him to prophesy against me.
13. They paid him to frighten me so I would do this and sin. Then they could give me a bad name to shame me.
14. I prayed, “My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat and what they have done. Also remember the prophetess Noadiah and the other prophets who have been trying to frighten me.”
15. The wall of Jerusalem was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul. It took fifty-two days to rebuild.