Nehemiah 6:19

Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

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KJV

Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

ASV

Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

YLT

also, his good deeds they have been saying before me, and my words they have been taking out to him; letters hath Tobiah sent to make me afraid.

DBT

Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. [And] Tobijah sent letters to put me in fear.

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Also they reported his good deeds before me,.... Recommended him as a very worthy man, deserving of respect and notice by Nehemiah, and to be taken into his friendship, and admitted to conversation with him, whose counsel and advice might be of service: and uttered my words to him; reported both what he said and did; for the word used signifies both words and actions: and Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear; perceiving, by the intelligence of his friends, that Nehemiah would have nothing to say to him, nor to do with him, he threatened him.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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"Thou knowest their hearts, and art the avenger of falsehood and wrong; take cognizance of this cause; judge between me and them, and take what way and time thou mayest please to call them to an account for it." Note, Whatever injuries are done us we must not avenge ourselves, but commit our cause to him that judgeth righteously.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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1 John 4:5
They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
Nehemiah 6:9
For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
Acts 4:18–21
Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
Isaiah 37:10–14
“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Nehemiah 6:13
He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
Jeremiah 29:25
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:

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About this book

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date: Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
leads to
- John 15:18–19
  If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
- John 3:19
  And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- Galatians 4:16
  Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Through
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
leads to
- Romans 1:32
  Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Ephesians 5:11
  Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- Matthew 14:4
  because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Through
1 John 4:5
They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
leads to
- John 8:23
  Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
- 2 Peter 2:2–3
  Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

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