Ezra 6

Ezra 6:10

To Shemaiah, &c. who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God.

I came to Shemaiah, who was, under pretence of devout humiliation and prayer for my safety, shut up in his house; and he, pretending a tender care of my person, advised, that we shut up ourselves in the Temple.

Ezra 6:11

And I said, Should such a man as I flee?

Have I taken upon me to be the governor of this people; and have I, in a godly resolution, gone through this work hitherto; and shall I now bewray any base fear or cowardice: and seem to set such a price upon my life, as that I would protract it, by weak subducing of myself, and hiding my head in the temple?

Ezra 6:14

My God, think thou upon Tobiah, &c.

O my God, I do not, out of any private malice or spleen, or in any respect to the affronts offered to my person, but in a sincere desire of thy glory, beseech thee, to make known to the world how ill thou takest these treacherous plots of Tobiah, and his complices, &c.