Nehemiah 6:4

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it lying, and come down to you?

5Then sent Sanballat unto me in like manner the fifth time his young man with an open letter in his hand:

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Cross References

Judges 16:10And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast deceived me, and told me lies; now do tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou canst be bound.

Proverbs 7:21She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 6:2-10

The Plot of Sanballat, &c. ( b. c. 445.) 1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) 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. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work,… Read the whole commentary →

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