Nehemiah 6:4
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
In context
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?”
4 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,
Nehemiah 6:4 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
- KJV King James Version
- Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
- WEB World English Bible
- They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and they send unto me, according to this word, four times, and I return them [word] according to this word.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.