13He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
13He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; 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 kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you.|
11 I said, |Should such a man as I flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.|
12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
14 |Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.|
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
6:13Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and [that] they might have [matter] for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:13He 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.
6:13For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing, and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.
6:13For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have wherewith to spread an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:13For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:13so that he is an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.
6:13Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.