11. I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
12. I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13. He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14. “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”
15. So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
16. When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
17. Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
18. For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.