Nehemiah 6:4
World English Bible (WEB)
They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
In context
2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”
4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
Nehemiah 6:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
- KJV King James Version
- Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
- 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.