And before this, Eliashib the priest being given over the cells of the house of our God, being near to Tobiah:

And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.

And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?"

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.