Verse 10
10. Shemaiah This man seems to have been professedly a prophet of God. Compare Nehemiah 6:12.
Who was shut up He feigned to be in fear of Sanballat and the other enemies, and seems to have imprisoned himself in his own house to show how much he was afraid. It afterward came out, however, that Tobiah and Sanballat had bribed him to do all this. Nehemiah 6:12.
Let us meet together in the house of God Let us at an appointed time enter and shut ourselves up in the temple. His object evidently was to frighten Nehemiah, and lead him into an act which would ruin his influence with the people. Such a flight into the temple would have laid him open to the charge of cowardice, and perhaps, also, of sacrilege, in rushing into the holy places of the house of God. See Nehemiah 6:13.
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