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   <div class="book bkNEH">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="NEH.6.1+NEH.6.2+NEH.6.3+NEH.6.4+NEH.6.5+NEH.6.6+NEH.6.7+NEH.6.8+NEH.6.9+NEH.6.10+NEH.6.11+NEH.6.12+NEH.6.13+NEH.6.14+NEH.6.15+NEH.6.16+NEH.6.17+NEH.6.18+NEH.6.19">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it&#8212;though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: &#8220;Come, let us meet together in one of the villages</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in Kephirim</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the plain of Ono.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.6.2"><span class="content">But they were scheming to harm me; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I sent messengers to them with this reply: &#8220;I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">in which was written:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.6.6"><span class="content">&#8220;It is reported among the nations&#8212;and Geshem</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Gashmu, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Geshem</span></span></span><span class="content"> says it is true&#8212;that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall. Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: &#8216;There is a king in Judah!&#8217; Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us meet together.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I sent him this reply: &#8220;Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, &#8220;Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.6.9"><span class="content">But I prayed, &#8220;Now strengthen my hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, &#8220;Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you&#8212;by night they are coming to kill you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But I said, &#8220;Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets have been trying to intimidate me. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Opposition to the Completed Wall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Also, in those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters to Tobiah, and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For many in Judah were under oath to him, since he was son-in-law to Shekaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then telling him what I said. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For to us a child is born,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">to us a son is given,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">and the government will be on his shoulders.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">And he will be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Of the greatness of his government and peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">there will be no end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">He will reign on David&#8217;s throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">and over his kingdom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">establishing and upholding it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">with justice and righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">from that time on and forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">The zeal of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">will accomplish this.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.23.5"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will raise up for David</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">up from David&#8217;s line</span></span></span><span class="content"> a righteous Branch,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.23.5"><span class="content">a King who will reign wisely</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.23.5"><span class="content">and do what is just and right in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In his days Judah will be saved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.23.6"><span class="content">and Israel will live in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.23.6"><span class="content">This is the name by which he will be called:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.23.6"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Our Righteous Savior.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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