Nehemiah 6:3

The Threat of Attack

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Nehemiah 6:3

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?

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Nehemiah 6:2

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

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Nehemiah 6:4

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