Nehemiah 6:4

Yet they sent vnto me foure times after this sort. And I answered them after the same maner.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

3Therefore I sent messengers vnto them, saying, I haue a great worke to doe, and I can not come downe: why should the worke cease, whiles I leaue it, and come downe to you?

5Then sent Sanballat his seruant after this sorte vnto me the fift time, with an open letter in his hand,

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Cross References

Judges 16:10After Delilah saide vnto Samson, See, thou hast mocked mee and tolde mee lies. I pray thee nowe, tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.

Proverbs 7:21Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

Luke 18:5Yet because this widowe troubleth mee, I will doe her right, lest at the last shee come and make me wearie.

Galatians 2:5To whom we gaue not place by subiection for an houre, that the trueth of the Gospel might continue 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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