Nehemiah 6:4
2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.
3 So 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?”
Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
5 The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter
6 that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
- KJV
- Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
- WEB
- They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
- ASV
- And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
- DARBY
- And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.
- BLB
- And they sent to me this word four times, and I answered them according to this word.
- ÅB
- Fire ganger sendte de det samme bud til meg, og jeg gav dem samme svar.
- OTB
- De sendte meg den samme meldingen fire ganger, og hver gang ga jeg dem det samme svaret.
- B1930
- Fire ganger sendte de det samme bud til mig, og jeg gav dem samme svar.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 18:5
yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
Read in contextJudges 16:15–20
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
Read in contextProverbs 7:21
With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
Read in contextProverbs 14:15
The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.
Read in contextJudges 16:10
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
Read in contextJudges 16:6
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
Read in contextGalatians 2:5
We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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