Therefore I sent messengers unto them, saying, I have a great work to do, and I cannot come down: [a]why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you?

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

Then sent Sanballat his servant after this sort unto me the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand,

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 6:3 Meaning, that if he should obey their request, the work which God had appointed, should cease: showing hereby that we should not commit ourselves to the hands of the wicked.

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