Nehemiah 6:19

Opposition To The Completed Wall

¹⁸ For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah. ¹⁹ These nobles kept mentioning Tobiah’s good deeds to me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

Good Deeds

Tobiah

Tobijah

Nehemiah 6:9

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.

Nehemiah 6:13

He was hired, so that I would be intimidated, do as he suggested, sin, and get a bad reputation, in order that they could discredit me.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who reject the law praise the wicked,
but those who keep the law battle against them.

Isaiah 37:10-14

“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem won’t be handed over to the king of Assyria.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Acts 4:18-21

So they called for them and ordered them not to preach or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.