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12 And loe, I perceaued that God hath not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecie against me: For Tobia and Sanaballat had hired him for money. 13 Therfore was he hyred, that through feare I should so do, & sinne, that they might haue an euill report of me to lay to my charge. 14 My God, thinke thou vpon Tobia and Sanaballat according vnto these their workes, and on the prophetisse Noadia, and the other prophetes that would haue put me in feare. 15 And the wall was finished on the twentie and fifth day of the moneth Elul, in fiftie and two dayes. 16 And when all our enemies hearde thereof, all the heathen that was about vs were afrayd, and their courage fayled them: For they perceaued that this worke came of our God. 17 And at the same time were there many of the chiefe of Iuda whose letters wente vnto Tobia, and againe from Tobia vnto them. 18 For there were many in Iuda that were sworne vnto him: for he was the sonne in lawe of Sechania, the sonne of Arah, and his sonne Iehonathan had the daughter of Mesullam the sonne of Barachia, 19 And they spake good of him before me, and tolde him my wordes: and Tobia sent letters to put me in feare. Nehemiah 6:12-19, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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