Nehemiah 6
1 Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem, and our other enemies heard [a report] that we had finished rebuilding the wall, and that now there were no more (gaps/places where the wall was not finished) (although we had not yet put the doors in the gates).
Då no Sanballat og Tobia og arabaren Gesem og dei hine fiendarne våre fekk spurt at eg hadde bygt upp muren, og at det ikkje fanst nokon rivna att i honom - endå hadde eg ikkje sett inn dører i portarne -
2 So Sanballat and Geshem sent [a message] to me, in which they said “Come and talk with us at a place in Ono Plain [north of Jerusalem].” But [I knew that] really they wanted to harm me [if I went there].
då sende Sanballat og Gesem bod til meg med dei ordi: «Kom, lat oss setja stemna med kvarandre i ein av landsbyarne i Onodalen!» Dei tenkte å gjera meg eitkvart ilt.
3 So I sent messengers to them, to tell them, “I am doing an important work, and I cannot go down [there]. (Why should I stop doing this work just to go down to [talk with] you?/I do not want to stop doing this work just to go down to [talk with] you.)” [RHQ]
Eg sende bod attende og svara deim: «Eg driv på med eit stort arbeid, so eg kann ikkje koma ned. Kvi skulde arbeidet kvila, når eg gjekk frå det og kom ned til dykk?»
4 They sent me the same message four times, and each time when I replied to them I said the same thing.
Fire gonger sende dei same bodet til meg; kvar gong gav eg deim same svaret.
5 Then Sanballat sent one of his servants to me, bringing a fifth message. This one was written, but it was not sealed. [He did that in order that others would read the message that the servant was carrying] in his hand.
Femte gongen sende Sanballat same bodet, og det med drengjen sin med ope brev i handi.
6 This is what was written in the message: “Some people in the nearby countries have heard a report that you and the other Jews are rebuilding the wall [in order to be able to resist attacks], because you are planning to revolt [against the king of Babylon]. And the report also says that you are planning to become the king [of the Israelis]. Geshem says that what they have reported is true.
Der stod skrive: «Det ordet gjeng millom grannefolki, og Gasmu segjer det same, at du og jødarne tenkjer på upprør mot kongen, og det er difor du byggjer upp att muren; ja, at du etlar deg verta kongen deira, so segjer dei.
7 [People are also saying that] you have appointed some prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem that you, [Nehemiah, ] are now the king in Judea. King [Artaxerxes] will certainly hear these reports, [and then you will be in big trouble]. So I suggest that we should meet together to talk about this matter.”
Og at du jamvel hev tinga deg profetar til å ropa ut i Jerusalem at du er konge i Juda. No vil kongen få høyra um dette. Kom då, lat oss samrådast!»
8 [When I read that message, ] I sent [the messenger] back to Sanballat to say, “None of what you are saying is true. You have (made this up/concocted this) in your own head/mind.”
Då sende eg dette svaret: «Ingen ting hev hendt av det du nemner; det er noko du sjølv hev funne på.»
9 [I said that because I knew that] they were trying to cause us to be afraid, with the result that we would stop working [on the wall]. So I actually became more determined (OR, I prayed to God to help me) [to continue the work].
Dei tekte alle dei skulde skræma oss, so henderne våre skulde valna og arbeidet verta ugjort. Men styrk du henderne mine!
10 [One day] I went to talk with Shemaiah, son of Delaiah and grandson of Mehetabel. I went to talk with him in his house, because he was not able (OR, allowed) to leave his house. He said to me, “You and I must enter the very sacred place in the temple and lock the doors, because people are going to come to kill you at night.”
Eg kom inn i huset åt Semaja, son åt Delaja, soneson åt Mehetabel, medan han heldt seg inne. Han sagde: «Lat oss ganga saman til Guds hus, inn i templet, og stengja dørerne til templet; for dei kjem og vil drepa deg, ja, dei kjem um natti og vil drepa deg.»
11 I replied, “I (am not that kind of person/do not do things like that) [RHQ]! I would not run and hide in the temple to save my life! No, I will not do that!”
Men eg svara: «Skulde ein mann som eg røma sin veg? Eller kann ein mann som eg ganga inn i heilagdomen og endå få liva? Eg gjeng ikkje.»
12 When I thought [about what he had said], I realized that God had not told Shemaiah to say that to me. I realized that Tobiah and Sanballat had bribed him [to say that to me].
Eg skyna greidt at ikkje Gud hadde sendt honom, han tala dette profetordet yver meg berre av di Tobia og Sanballat hadde leigt honom til det.
13 They had bribed him to cause me to be afraid. They wanted me to [disobey God’s commands and] sin [by hiding in the temple]. If I did that, they would be able to ruin my reputation [MTY] and discredit me.
Meiningi med dette var at han skulde skræma meg til å gjera so og dermed forsynda meg. Det vilde gjenge på æra mi, so dei kunde ført spott og skam yver meg.
14 [So I prayed, ] “My God, do not forget what Tobiah and Sanballat have done. Punish them. And do not forget that the female prophet Noadiah and some of the other prophets have also tried to cause me to be afraid.”
Min Gud, kom i hug Tobia og Sanballat for desse verki hans, og like eins profetkvinna Noadja og dei hine profetarne som vilde skræma meg.
15 On October 2 we finished rebuilding the wall. We did it all in 52 days.
Muren vart fullt ferdig på tvo og femti dagar, den fem og tjugande dagen i månaden elul.
16 When our enemies in the nearby countries heard about that, they realized that they had been humiliated, because everyone knew that it was because God helped us that we had been able to do this work [and that they had not been able to force us to quit].
Då alle fiendarne våre spurde dette, då ottast alle grannefolki, og dei minka mykje i sine eigne augo. Dei skyna at dette arbeidet var eit verk av vår Gud.
17 During this time, the Jewish leaders had been sending many messages/letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah had been sending messages back to them.
I dei dagarne skreiv dei jødiske adelsmennerne mange brev som gjekk til Tobia, og frå Tobia kom det brev attende til deim.
18 Many people in Judea were closely associated with Tobiah, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah. Furthermore, Tobiah’s son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berekiah.
Mange jødar var i svorne vener av honom; han var måg til Sekanja Arahsson; og Johanan, son hans, var gift med dotter åt Mesullam Berekjason.
19 People often talked in my presence about all the good things that Tobiah had done, and then they would tell him everything that I said. So Tobiah sent many letters to me to try to cause me to become afraid.
Gong på gong tala dei med meg um dygderne hans, og mine ord bar dei fram til honom. Tobia sende ogso brev til å skræma meg.
