Nehemiah 6:3-5

Jubilee Bible 2000

³ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?

⁴ Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort, and I answered them after the same manner.

⁵ Then Sanballat sent his slave to say the same thing for the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,