Nehemiah 6:2-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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

³ So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?” ⁴ Four times they sent me the same proposal, and I gave them the same reply.