Nehemiah 6:10

Attempts To Intimidate Nehemiah

⁹ For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will become discouraged in the work, and it will never be finished.”

But now, my God, strengthen me. ¹⁰ I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted to his house. He said:

Let us meet at the house of God
inside the temple.
Let us shut the temple doors
because they are coming to kill you.
They are coming to kill you tonight! ¹¹ But I said, “Should a man like me run away? How can I enter the temple and live? I will not go.”

Doors of the Temple

House of God

Let Us

Temple of God

Delaiah

Mehetabeel

Mehetabel

Shemaiah

Jeremiah 36:5

Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the temple of the Lord,

1 Kings 6:5

He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.

2 Kings 9:8

The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will eliminate all of Ahab’s males, both slave and free, in Israel.

2 Kings 11:3

Joash was in hiding with Jehosheba in the Lord’s temple six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.

2 Chronicles 28:24

Then Ahaz gathered up the utensils of God’s temple, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the Lord’s temple, and made himself altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 29:3

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

2 Chronicles 29:7

They also closed the doors of the portico, extinguished the lamps, did not burn incense, and did not offer burnt offerings in the holy place of the God of Israel.

Ezra 8:16

Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.

Ezra 10:31

Harim’s descendants: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

Nehemiah 6:12

I realized that God had not sent him, because of the prophecy he spoke against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Job 24:13-17

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

Psalm 12:2

They lie to one another;
they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked person schemes against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him.

Psalm 120:2-3

“Lord, deliver me from lying lips
and a deceitful tongue.”

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the ungodly destroys his neighbor,
but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

Ezekiel 3:24

The Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

Malachi 1:10

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.

John 3:20

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

Acts 21:30

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.