“Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.”
Nehemiah 6:4 (BSB)
Context Reading
2Sanballat 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. 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?” 4Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply. 5The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter 6that 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,