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Nehemiah 6:8

And I sent vnto him, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest, for thou fainest them out of thyne owne heart.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Accusation, False;   Tobiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Geshem or Gashmu;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Geshem;   Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sanballat ;   Tobiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sanballat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Sanballat;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Feign;   Hosea;   Prophecy;   Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I replied to him, “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”
Hebrew Names Version
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.
King James Version
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
English Standard Version
Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind."
New Century Version
So I sent him back this answer: "Nothing you are saying is really happening. You are just making it up in your own mind."
New English Translation
I sent word back to him, "We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. All of this is a figment of your imagination."
Amplified Bible
I sent a message to him, saying, "Such things as you are saying have not been done; you are inventing them in your own mind."
New American Standard Bible
Then I sent a message to him saying, "Nothing like these things that you are saying has been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind."
World English Bible
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I sent vnto him, saying, It is not done according to these wordes that thou sayest: for thou feynest them of thine owne heart.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I sent a message to him, saying, "Such words as you are saying have not been done, but you are devising them in your own heart."
Berean Standard Bible
Then I sent him this reply: "There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind."
Contemporary English Version
I sent a message back to Sanballat, saying, "None of this is true! You are making it all up."
Complete Jewish Bible
I sent him this answer; "Nothing like what you are saying is being done. You're making it all up in your head."
Darby Translation
And I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I sent this answer back to Sanballat: "Nothing you are saying is happening. You are just making all that up in your own head."
George Lamsa Translation
Then I sent to him, saying, There is no truth in such words as these which you say; you are saying them out of your own heart.
Good News Translation
I sent a reply to him: "Nothing of what you are saying is true. You have made it all up yourself."
Lexham English Bible
So I sent to him saying, "None of these words you have spoken has happened. You are indeed saying things created in your own mind"—
Literal Translation
And I sent to him, saying, These things which you are saying are not happening, for you pretend them out of your own heart.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles I sent vnto him, sayenge: There is no soch thinge done as thou sayest: thou hast fayned it out of thine owne hert.
American Standard Version
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Bible in Basic English
Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then I sent unto him, saying: 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.'
King James Version (1611)
Then I sent vnto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine owne heart.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I sent to him, saying, It has not happened according to these words, even as thou sayest, for thou framest them falsely out of thy heart.
English Revised Version
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y sente to hem, and seide, It is not doon bi these wordis whiche thou spekist; for of thin herte thou makist these thingis.
Update Bible Version
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thy own heart.
New King James Version
Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart."
New Living Translation
I replied, "There is no truth in any part of your story. You are making up the whole thing."
New Life Bible
Then I sent word to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done. You are making them up in your own mind."
New Revised Standard
Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done; you are inventing them out of your own mind"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then sent I unto him, saying, Nothing hath been done, according to these words, which thou art saying, - but, out of thine own heart, art thou feigning them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.
Revised Standard Version
Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind."
Young's Literal Translation
And I send unto him, saying, `It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;'
THE MESSAGE
I sent him back this: "There's nothing to what you're saying. You've made it all up."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I sent a message to him saying, "Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind."

Contextual Overview

1 And when Sanaballat, Tobia, and Gesem the Arabian, and the other of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there were no mo gappes therein: (howebeit at the same time had I not hanged the doores vpon the gates,) 2 Sanaballat and Gesem sent vnto me, saying: Come, that we may meete & take counsel together in the villages that are in the playne of the citie Ono. Neuerthelesse, they thought to do me euill. 3 And I sent messengers vnto them, saying: I haue a great businesse to do, and I can not come downe: Why should the worke ceasse, whilest I leaue it and come downe to you? 4 Howbeit, they sent vnto me as good as foure times after the same maner: And I gaue them the same aunswere. 5 Then sent Sanaballat his seruaunt againe vnto me the fift time, with an open letter in his hande, 6 Wherein was written: It is tolde the heathen, and Gesem hath saide it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebel: for the which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayst be their king, according to these wordes: 7 And hast ordayned the prophetes to preache of thee at Hierusalem, and to say, He is king of Iuda. And now shall this come to the kinges eares: come now therefore, and let vs take our counsell together. 8 And I sent vnto him, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest, for thou fainest them out of thyne owne heart. 9 For they were all minded to make vs afrayde, saying, They shall withdrawe their handes from their worke, that it shall not be finished: Nowe therefore strengthen thou my hande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

There are: Acts 24:12, Acts 24:13, Acts 25:7, Acts 25:10

thou feignest: Job 13:4, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 38:12, Psalms 52:2, Isaiah 59:4, Daniel 11:27, Matthew 12:34, John 8:44

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 37:14 - said

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.
Genesis 19:19
Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye.
Psalms 84:11
For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection.
Psalms 145:20
God preserueth all those that loue him: but he wyll bring to nothyng such as be vngodly.
Proverbs 3:4
So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstandyng in the sight of God and men.
Proverbs 8:35
For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.
Jeremiah 31:2
Thus saith the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wildernesse from the sworde, founde grace to come into their rest.
Luke 1:30
And the Angel saide vnto her: Feare not Marie, for thou hast founde grace with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I sent unto him,.... Whether a letter, or a messenger, is not said:

saying there are no such things done as thou sayest; that there was any scheme formed to rebel, and make him king, or that prophets were appointed to declare him such:

but thou feignest them out of thine own heart; in short, that they were no other than lies of his own inventing.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 6:8. There are no such things done — You well know that what you say is false: I shall not, therefore, trouble myself about a false charge.


 
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