Nehemiah 6:3-5

New International Version

³ so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” ⁴ Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

⁵ Then, the fifth time, Sanballat^(A) sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter