Nehemiah 6:9-11

21st Century King James Version

⁹ For they all made us afraid, saying, “Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

¹⁰ Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, 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.”

¹¹ And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”