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Nehemiah 6:4

World English Bible

They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

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Nehemiah 6:4 in other translations

And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Nehemiah 6:4 · American Standard Version

Nehemiah 6:4 in context

  1. 2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
  2. 3I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”
  3. 4They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
  4. 5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
  5. 6in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.