Nehemiah 6:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

² Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me: “Come, let’s meet together in Kephirim^[a] in the Plain of Ono.” (However, they were planning to harm me.)

³ So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am working on an important project, and I am not able to come down. Why should the project stop while I leave it and come down to you?” ⁴ They sent messages like this to me four times, and I answered them that same way each time.