Nehemiah 6:3 WBT

¹  Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and [that] there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

²  That Sanballat and Geshem sent to 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.

³  And I sent messengers to 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 to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

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