Nehemiah 6:1-3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Attempts to Discourage the Builders

6 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies^(A) heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that no gap was left in it^(B) – though at that time I had not installed the doors in the city gates^(C) –  ² Sanballat and Geshem^(D) sent me a message: ‘Come, let’s meet together in the villages of^[a] the Ono Valley.’^(E) They were planning to harm me.

³ So I sent messengers to them, saying, ‘I am doing important work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you? ’