So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about it, it was very displeasing to them that someone had come to seek the welfare of the sons of Israel.

Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.”

But I said, “Should a man like me flee? And could one such as I go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

the sons of Zaccai, 760;