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Conspiracy Against Nehemiah

¹Now it happened ⚓when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it ⚓(though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates), ²that Sanballat and Geshem ⚓sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of ⚓Ono.” But they ⚓thought to do me harm.
³So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”
⁴But they sent me this message four times, and I answered them in the same manner.
⁵Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before, the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand. ⁶In it was written:
It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says, that you and the Jews plan to rebel; therefore, according to these rumors, you are rebuilding the wall, ⚓that you may be their king. ⁷And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, “There is a king in Judah!” Now these matters will be reported to the king. So come, therefore, and let us consult together.
⁸Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.”
⁹For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.”
Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
¹⁰Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was a secret informer; and he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you.”
¹¹And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!” ¹²Then I perceived that God had not sent him at all, but that ⚓he pronounced this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. ¹³For this reason he was hired, that I should be afraid and act that way and sin, so that they might have cause for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
¹⁴⚓My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat, according to these their works, and the ⚓prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid.

The Wall Completed

¹⁵So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. ¹⁶And it happened, ⚓when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for ⚓they perceived that this work was done by our God.
¹⁷Also in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them. ¹⁸For many in Judah were pledged to him, because he was the ⚓son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of ⚓Meshullam the son of Berechiah. ¹⁹Also they reported his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.

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Ntxeev Siab rau Nehemis

¹Xanpalas, Taunpias, Nkesees thiab lwm pab uas yog peb cov yeebncuab hnov hais tias peb kho tau tus ntsa yeej tiav ntom nti tsis muaj ib qhov twg khoob li lawm, tsuas yog peb tseem tsis tau coj cov txiag roojvag mus dhos rau ntawm cov roojvag xwb. ²Vim li ntawd, Xanpalas thiab Nkesees thiaj tso neeg tuaj hais rau kuv kom kuv mus ntsib nkawd rau hauv ib lub zos ntawm cov zos uas nyob hauv lub tiaj nrag Aunaus. Qhov no twb yog nkawd tuavhauv xav ua phem rau kuv nkaus xwb. ³Kuv thiaj tso neeg mus hais rau nkawd tias, “Kuv tseem muaj haujlwm tseemceeb heev, kuv tuaj ntsib tsis tau neb. Kuv yuav tsis tso kuv tej haujlwm tseg, thiab cia li tuaj ntsib neb nkaus xwb.”
⁴Nkawd tso neeg tuaj hais rau kuv txog plaub zaug puavleej hais ib yam nkaus li ntawd, thiab txhua zaus uas kuv teb rau nkawd los teb ib yam nkaus li ntawd thiab.
⁵Ces zaum tsib Xanpalas txawm tso kiag nws tus tubtxib tuaj hais rau kuv; zaum no nws nqa ib tsab ntawv tsis nias homthawj rau li. ⁶Tsab ntawv ntawd hais li no:
“Nkesees hais rau kuv tias, muaj ib cov nyuag lus xaiv tsis zoo uas pheej hais nyob rau hauv cov pejxeem, thiab Nkesees hais tias cov lus ntawd yeej muaj tseeb tiag, koj thiab cov Yudas xav ntxeev siab. Yog li ntawd, nej thiaj li txhim kho tus ntsa yeej. Thiab Nkesees tseem hais ntxiv tias yog koj npaj siab xav kom tsa koj ua huabtais. ⁷Thiab koj tseem tau hais kom cov cev Vajtswv lus qee leej tshaj tawm rau hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees tias koj yog cov Yudas tus vajntxwv; zaj no twb nrov mus txog huabtais lawm. Yog li ntawd, kuv hais rau koj paub tias koj thiab kuv yuav tsum tau tuaj sib ntsib thiab tham txog zaj no.”
⁸Kuv thiaj txib neeg mus hais rau Nkesees li no: “Tej lus uas koj hais tas los ntawd yeej tsis muaj ib los tseeb li, koj lam ntxeev lus xwb.”
⁹Lawv nrhiav kev ua kom peb ntshai thiab tso tes haujlwm no tseg. Kuv thiaj thov Vajtswv hais tias, “Vajtswv, tamsim no thov koj txhawb kuv lub zog lauj!”
¹⁰Thaum ntawd kuv thiaj mus xyuas Delayas tus tub Semayas uas yog Mehetanpees tus xeebntxwv uas nws yeej tsis muaj cuabkav yuav tawm tau hauv nws lub tsev hlo li. Nws hais rau kuv tias, “Koj thiab kuv yuav tsum tau khiav mus nkaum rau hauv chav dawbhuv hauv lub Tuamtsev thiab muab tej qhovrooj liaj huv tibsi, rau qhov lawv npaj siab yuav tuaj muab koj tua. Txij no mus txhua hmo lawv yuav tuaj nyas nrhiav koj tua povtseg.”
¹¹Kuv teb nws hais tias, “Kuv tsis yog hom neeg uas yuav nrhiav kev khiav mus nkaum. Koj xav hais tias kuv yuav mus nrhiav chaw nkaum hauv lub Tuamtsev kom cawm tau kuv txojsia no los? Kuv tsis ua li ntawd ib zaug li.”
¹²Thaum kuv muab zaj no ua tib zoo xav lawm, kuv paub hais tias Vajtswv tsis tau los hais rau Semayas, tiamsis yog Xanpalas thiab Taunpias nkawd ntiav kom Semayas tuaj ceebtoom li ntawd rau kuv xwb. ¹³Nkawd ntiav nws tuaj tso hem thawj rau kuv kom kuv mus ua txhaum, nkawd thiaj li yuav ua tau rau kom kuv lub koob lub npe puas thiab muab kuv txo kom poob ntsejmuag.
¹⁴Kuv thov Vajtswv hais tias, “Vajtswv, thov koj nco ntsoov tej uas Taunpias thiab Xanpalas nkawd ua thiab rau txim rau nkawd. Thiab thov nco ntsoov tus pojniam Naudiyas uas yog tus cevlus thiab lwm tus cevlus uas pheej nrhiav kev ua kom kuv ntshai ntawd.”

Xaus Kev ua Haujlwm

¹⁵Tau tsib caug ob hnub tom qab, tes haujlwm uas ua tus ntsa yeej mam li tiav rau hnub nees nkaum ntsib lub hli Elus. ¹⁶Thaum peb cov yeebncuab uas yog cov tebchaws nyob ibncig peb hnov hais txog tej ntawd, lawv poob ntsejmuag kawg li. Rau qhov txhua tus puavleej paub hais tias tej haujlwm ntawd tiav tas vim yog muaj Vajtswv ua tus pab.
¹⁷Lub sijhawm ntawd, cov Yudas tej thawjcoj puavleej tau koomtes nrog Taunpias. ¹⁸Muaj cov Yudas coob leej tuaj Taunpias tog, rau qhov nws yawmtxiv yog Alas tus tub Sekaniyas uas yog neeg Yudas. Dua li ntawd, nws tus tub Yehauhanas tseem yuav Npelekhiyas tus tub Mesulas tus ntxhais ua pojniam thiab. ¹⁹Cov neeg pheej hais zom zaws tabmeeg rau ntawm kuv xubntiag txog Taunpias tej haujlwm zoo thiab pheej coj txhua yam uas kuv tau hais mus piav qhia huv tibsi rau Taunpias mloog. Thiab nws tseem pheej xa ntawv tuaj hem kom kuv ntshai.