Nehemiah 6:3

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

4They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Luke 14:30saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

1 Timothy 4:15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

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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