4Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.
4Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.
1 When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it-though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates-
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 scheming to harm me;
3 so I sent messengers to them with this reply: "I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?"
4 Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.
5 Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter
6 in which was written: "It is reported among the nations-and Geshem says it is true-that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall. Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king
6:4Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
6:4And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.
6:4And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
6:4And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.
6:4And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
6:4Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
6:4They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them the same way.
6:4and they send unto me, according to this word, four times, and I return them word according to this word.
6:4Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.