6:11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? 1 I will not go!” 6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. 2 6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I 3 would be discredited. 4
1 tn Heb “go into the temple and live.”
2 tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”
3 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).
4 tn Heb “would have a bad name.”