Nehemiah 6:9 CPDV

⁷  you also have stationed prophets, who preach about you in Jerusalem, saying: 'There is a king in Judea!' But the king will hear about these words. Therefore, come now, so that we may go to counsel together.'

⁸  And I sent to them, saying: 'There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart.'

⁹  For all these men wished to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would cease. For this reason, I strengthened my hands all the more.

¹⁰  And I entered into the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, in secret. And he said: 'Let us consult together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple. And let us close the doors of the temple. For they will come to kill you, and they will arrive in the night to put you to death.'

¹¹  And I said: 'How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.'