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Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

Majority Standard Bible

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

3So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”

5The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter

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Cross References

Judges 16:10Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

Proverbs 7:21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Luke 18:5yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Otherwise, she will wear me out with her perpetual requests.’”

Galatians 2:5We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

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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