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And moreover thou has appointed prophets to thyself, that thou mightest dwell in Jerusalem as a king over Juda: and now these words will be reported to the king. Now then, come, let us take counsel together.
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And I sent to him, saying, It has not happened according to these words, as thou sayest, for thou framest them falsely out of thy heart.
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For all were trying to alarm us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from this work, and it shall not be done. Now therefore I have strengthened my hands.
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And I came into the house of Semei the son of Dalaia the Son of Metabeel, and he was shut up; and he said, Let us assemble together in the house of God, in the midst of it, and let us shut the doors of it; for they are coming by night to slay thee.
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And I said, Who is the man that shall enter into the house, that he may live?
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And I observed, and, behold, God had not sent him, for the prophecy was a fable against me:
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and Tobias and Sanaballat had hired against me a multitude, that I might be frightened, and do this, and sin, and become to them an ill name, that they might reproach me.
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Remember, O God, Tobias and Sanaballat, according to these their deeds, and the prophetess Noadia, and the rest of the prophets who tried to alarm me.
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So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the Elul, in fifty-two days.
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And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard , that all the nations round about us feared, and great alarm fell upon them, and they knew that it was of our God that this work should be finished.
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And in those days letters came to Tobias from many nobles of Juda, and those of Tobias came to them.