1 Now it came to pass, when Sanvalat [strength], and Toviyah [Yehovah is good], and Geshem [rain] the Aravi [Arabian], and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and [that] there was no breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet) left in it; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
2 That Sanvalat [strength] and Geshem [rain] sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [some one of] the villages in the plain of Ono [vigorous]. But they thought to do me mischief.
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
5 Then sent Sanvalat [strength] his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6 Wherein [was] written, It is reported among the heathen, and Geshemu [rain] says [it, that] youi and the Y’hudim (Judeans) think to rebel: for which cause youi build the wall, that youi may be their king, according to these words.
10 Afterward I came unto the house of Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the son of D’layahu [Yehovah has accomplished] the son of M’heitav’el [Favoured of God], who [was] shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay youi; yes, in the night will they come to slay youi.
11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who [is there], that, [being] as I [am], would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12 And, lo, I perceived that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Toviyah [Yehovah is good] and Sanvalat [strength] had hired him.
13 Therefore [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 (disgrace; shame) me.