An Open Letter — Nehemiah 6:9–11
For they all would have made us afraid, saying,
Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.
But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.
And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said,
Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
And I said,
Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.