Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so,
 and sin
 By distrusting the power and providence of God to protect him, and by going into such a part of the temple, which he, being no priest, had no right to go into: 
 and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might
 reproach me;
 as a rebel and traitor against the king, which had been reported of him, and which would be strengthened by such a step.