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

And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)

Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to you.

And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.

And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:

It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall, and hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end