Bible Verses About Geshem: Called also Gashmu, an Arabian. Opposed Nehemiah in building Jerusalem.

When it was reported to Sanvalat, Toviyah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and that not a single gap was left in it - although up to that time I hadn't yet set up the doors in the gateways -

Sanvalat and Geshem sent me a message which said, "Come, let's meet together in one of the villages of the Ono Valley." But they were planning to do me harm;

so I sent them messengers with this message: "I'm too busy with important work to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down to you?"

They kept sending this sort of message to me - four times - and I answered them the same way.

The fifth time, with the same purpose, Sanvalat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand,

in which was written: "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says it too, that you and the Judeans are planning a revolt, that this is why you are rebuilding the wall, and that you intend to be their king," and similar words;