Nehemia 6:13

Lutherbibel

Darum nahm er Geld, auf daß ich mich fürchten sollte und also tun und sündigen, daß sie ein böses Gerücht hätten, damit sie mich lästern möchten.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
und zwar zu dem Zweck, daß ich in Furcht geraten und so handeln und mich versündigen sollte, damit sie mir einen bösen Namen machen und mich verlästern könnten.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that I should: Proverbs 29:5, Isaiah 51:7, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13, Isaiah 57:11, Jeremiah 1:17, Ezekiel 2:6, Ezekiel 13:17-23, Matthew 10:28, 2 Timothy 1:7, Revelation 21:8

and sin: James 4:17

and that they: Nehemiah 6:6, Proverbs 22:1, Ecclesiastes 7:1

that: Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 20:10, Daniel 6:4, Daniel 6:5, Matthew 22:15, Matthew 26:59, Acts 6:13, 2 Corinthians 11:12, 1 Timothy 5:14, Titus 2:8

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 6:7 - appointed Nehemiah 6:19 - to put Proverbs 16:29 - General Ecclesiastes 10:1 - a little

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.