Quotes About Faith

Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”

But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”

I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.

When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.

When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed.

accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:

the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;

the descendants of Arah, 652;

the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;

the descendants of Zattu, 845;

the descendants of Zaccai, 760;

the descendants of Binnui, 648;

the descendants of Bebai, 628;

the descendants of Adonikam, 667;

the descendants of Bigvai, 2,067;

the descendants of Adin, 655;

the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah), 98;

the descendants of Hashum, 328;

the descendants of Bezai, 324;

the descendants of Gibeon, 95;

the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

the men of Anathoth, 128;