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. 14 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. 15 So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
Nehemiah 6:13–15
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