SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:7
y que has puesto profetas que prediquen de ti en Jerusalén, diciendo: ¡Rey en Judá! Y ahora serán oídas del rey las tales palabras; ven, por tanto, y consultemos juntos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 6:7
Verse 7. Thou hast also appointed prophets] Persons who pretend to be commissioned to preach to the people, and say, Nehemiah reigneth! Come now therefore, and let us take counsel] Come and justify yourself before me. This was a trick to get Nehemiah into his power.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem , etc.] This he said to cover what he and Tobiah had been doing, tampering with, corrupting, and hiring the prophets to discourage him, and put him upon methods, whereby the work would cease: saying, there is a king in Judah ; besides Artaxerxes, whose yoke they were casting off, having got a king of their own, and among them: and now shall it be reported to the king, according to these words ; such a report as this, and in those very words, will soon reach the ears of the king of Persia: come now, therefore, and let us take counsel together ; contrive the best method to put a stop to this report, if a false one, and to wipe off the reproach that is upon thee, and may affect us; and thus partly terrifying him, and partly pretending friendship to him, hoped to get him into his hands.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Let those who are tempted to idle merry meetings by vain companions thus answer the temptation, We have work to do, and must not neglec it. We must never suffer ourselves to be overcome, by repeated urgency to do anything sinful or imprudent; but when attacked with the sam temptation, must resist it with the same reason and resolution. It is common for that which is desired only by the malicious, to be falsel represented by them as desired by the many. But Nehemiah knew at what they aimed, he not only denied that such things were true, but tha they were reported; he was better known than to be thus suspected. We must never omit any known duty for fear it should be misconstrued; but while we keep a good conscience, let us trust God with our good name God's people, though loaded with reproach, are not really fallen so lo in reputation as some would have them thought to be. Nehemiah lifted u his heart to Heaven in a short prayer. When, in our Christian work an warfare, we enter upon any service or conflict, this is a good prayer I have such a duty to do, such a temptation to grapple with; now therefore, Of God, strengthen my hands. Every temptation to draw us from duty, should quicken us the more to duty.
Original Hebrew
וגם 1571 נביאים 5030 העמדת 5975 לקרא 7121 עליך 5921 בירושׁלם 3389 לאמר 559 מלך 4428 ביהודה 3063 ועתה 6258 ישׁמע 8085 למלך 4428 כדברים 1697 האלה 428 ועתה 6258 לכה 1980 ונועצה 3289 יחדו׃ 3162
