Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent unto them messengers, saying, A great work, am, I, doing, and cannot come down,—wherefore should the work cease whilst I leave it, and come down unto you?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come! and let us meet together in the villages, in the valley of Ono,—But, they, were plotting to do me harm.

4Yet they sent unto me, according to this message, four times,—and I replied to them according to this answer.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13So I set—on the lower slopes of the place behind the wall in the waste grounds,—yea I set the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do,—for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.

Luke 14:30saying—This man, began to build, and was not able to finish!

1 Timothy 4:15These things, be thy care, in these things, be thou, that, thine advancement, may be, manifest, unto 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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