John Trapp on Nehemiah 6:10

Verſe 10. Afterwards I came unto the houſe of Shemaiah] Perhaps the ſame that is mentioned, Ezra 8.16. but now fallen, as a Star from Heaven. Blazing Stars were never but Meteors. Demas not only forſook Paul, but became a Prieſt in an idols Temple at Theſſalonica, 1 Chron. 24.18. if Dorotheus may be beleeved. A Prieſt Shemajah was, would ſeem to be a Prophet: but he proved not right. All is not gold that gliſters. It was Tobiah's gold that made him a Prophet, as Philips gold made the oracle of Apollo give what anſwer he pleaſed. A houſe he had in the Temple: & there he had recluſed and ſhut up himſelf, that he might ſeem ſome ſingular Devoto, expecting a revelation from Heavē: or as one who ſequeſtred himſelf from company of others, with a ſtand further off; come not near, for I am holier then thou. Or, laſtly, to perſwade people that there was a neceſſity of ſecuring themſelves from the night-inrodes of the Enemy. Whatever it was that he was thus (Anchoret-like) pent up, or locked up, or deteyned (as Junius rendreth it, ſee the like ſaid of Doeg, that bloody Edomite, 1 Sam. 21.7.) Nehemiah went to his houſe to know what was the matter: ſuppoſing him to be a friend, but finding him ſuborned by the Enemy.

Let us meet together in the Houſe of God] Famous for ſanctity and ſafety: being within Gods precincts, we ſhall ſurely be under his protection.

And let us ſhut the doors of the Temple] Immure our ſelves, and keep out the Enemy. But, this had been the ready way to invite them, ſeeing his cow a diſe: for maximum his periculum qui maximè timent (ſaith Salluſt.) nothing betrayes a man ſooner then his cauſeleſſe fear. God helpeth the valiant. Beſides, Shemaiah and his falſe complices, having got Nehemiah to them from his friends and followers, might have done what they pleaſed with him; as the Romanes did by Caeſar, in the Senat-houſe.

For they will come to ſtay thee] And Nehemiah muſt be made beleeve, that Shemaiah, as a ſpecial friend, wiſhed no long life, and was zealous for it: whence he ſo doubleth his prediction of the danger. O deep diſſimulation!