So instead of going, I sent messengers back to them. Nehemiah’s Message: I am in the middle of a great work and cannot be interrupted. I am not coming down to meet with you. What is so important that I should suspend this great work we are doing to travel to see you?

In him You found a true heart, a heart devoted to You. With him You made a covenant that the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, The Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites would belong to him and to his descendants. And what You have promised, You have done because You are righteous.