Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
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Gill's Exposition
Then I sent unto him,.... Whether a letter, or a messenger, is not said:
saying there are no such things done as thou sayest; that there was any scheme formed to rebel, and make him king, or that…
Adam Clarke
There are no such things done - You well know that what you say is false: I shall not, therefore, trouble myself about a false charge.
Two plots upon Nehemiah we have here an account of, how cunningly they were laid by his enemies and how happily frustrated by God's good providence and his prudence.
I. A plot to trepan him into a…
Cambridge Bible
There are no such thingsdone] Literally, -it has not happened or it has not been done according to these words." Nehemiah contents himself with curtly retorting that there is no sort of foundation for…
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