Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them. The nobles of Judah sent many letters - The circumstances marked in this and the following verses show still more clearly the difficulties which Nehemiah had to encounter; he had enemies without and false friends within. A treacherous correspondence was carried on between the nobles of Judah and the Ammonites; and had almost any other man been at the head of the Jewish affairs, Jerusalem had never been re-established.
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Nehemiah 6:17
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sentb many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.