Nehemiah 6:1-3

Good News Translation

Plots against Nehemiah

6 Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem, and the rest of our enemies heard that we had finished building the wall and that there were no gaps left in it, although we still had not set up the gates in the gateways. ² So Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message, suggesting that I meet with them in one of the villages in the Plain of Ono. This was a trick of theirs to try to harm me. ³ I sent messengers to say to them, “I am doing important work and can't go down there. I am not going to let the work stop just to go and see you.”