Nehemiah 6:11-13

Revised Standard Version

¹¹ But I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live?^[a] I will not go in.” ¹² And I understood, and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobi′ah and Sanbal′lat had hired him. ¹³ For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me an evil name, in order to taunt me.