Nehemiah 6:9-11

American Standard Version

⁹ For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, ^[a]O God, strengthen thou my hands.

¹⁰ And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. ¹¹ And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, ^[b]would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.