Nehemiah 6:13
King James VersionSource notes
“Therefore he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and they might have for an evil report, that they might reproach me.”
Context
10Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
11And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who that, as I would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13Therefore he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and they might have for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14My 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.
15So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth of Elul, in fifty and two days.
16And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard and all the heathen that about us saw they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.