Nehemiah 6:3-5

21st Century King James Version

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 in this manner, and I answered them in the same manner.

⁵ Then Sanballat sent his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,