“He was hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 6 contains 19 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.