Nehemiah 6:14

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Summary

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

Think thou

On the prophetess

General references

Judges 4:4

Bible References

Think thou

Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Let not the foot of pride come upon me,
And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set snares for me. Selah.

But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
Who tries the feelings and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You have I committed my cause.

Should good be repaid with evil?

For they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.

On the prophetess

The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You are to entice him and also prevail. Go and do so.’

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares the Lord God.

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

Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs

in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

General references

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.