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And I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up. And he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us shut thedoors of the temple. For they will come tokill you. Yea, in the night they will come to kill you.

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? And who being as I am would go into the temple and live? I will not go in.

And I understood that, behold, God had not sent him. For he spoke the prophecy against me, and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

So he was hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and I should sin, and become for them for an evil name with which they might reproach me.

O God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also to the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who are my alarmers.