What does Nehemiah 6:19 mean?

They kept talking up Tobiah’s good qualities to me, and then they’d go tell him everything I said. Tobiah kept sending letters to try to scare me. Nehemiah 6:19 - Modern Text Bible

(People in Judah were acting as go-betweens, praising Tobiah to Nehemiah and reporting back to Tobiah, while Tobiah tried to intimidate Nehemiah with threatening letters.)