that read: "It is reported among the nations--and Geshem agrees--that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king, Cross References Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?" Nehemiah 6:5 The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter Nehemiah 6:7 and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: 'There is a king in Judah.' Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together." Nehemiah 6:13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me. Jeremiah 20:10 For I have heard the whispering of many: "Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!" All my trusted friends watch for my fall: "Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him." Treasury of Scripture Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu said it, that you and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause you build the wall, that you may be their king, according to these words. It is reported Jeremiah 9:3-6 Jeremiah 20:10 Matthew 5:11 Gashmu Nehemiah 6:1,2 Geshem. Nehemiah 2:19 Ezra 4:12,15 that thou mayest Luke 23:2 John 19:13 |