8. Then I replied to him, “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”
9. For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will become discouraged in the work, and it will never be finished.”But now, my God, strengthen me.
10. I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted to his house. He said:Let us meet at the house of Godinside the temple.Let us shut the temple doorsbecause they are coming to kill you.They are coming to kill you tonight!
11. But I said, “Should a man like me run away? How can I enter the temple and live? I will not go.”