Verse 3
Nehemiah 6:3
Free Bible Version
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So I sent messengers to tell them, “I'm busy with important work and I can't come down. Why should I stop what I'm doing and leave it to come and see you?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אֶשְׁלְחָ֨/ה עֲלֵי/הֶ֤ם מַלְאָכִים֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר מְלָאכָ֤ה גְדוֹלָה֙ אֲנִ֣י עֹשֶׂ֔ה וְ/לֹ֥א אוּכַ֖ל לָ/רֶ֑דֶת לָ֣/מָּה תִשְׁבַּ֤ת הַ/מְּלָאכָה֙ כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַרְפֶּ֔/הָ וְ/יָרַדְתִּ֖י אֲלֵי/כֶֽם
English Translation
And I will send messengers to them saying, "I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease just as I am finishing it? I will go down to you."
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Chapter 6 Context
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When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and our other enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and...
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2
they sent a message to me, saying, “Come on, let's meet in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”...
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3
So I sent messengers to tell them, “I'm busy with important work and I can't come down. Why should I...
4
They sent me the same message four times, and every time my reply was the same.
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5
Sanballat sent me the same message the fifth time by his servant, who brought in his hand an open le...
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6
The letter read: “People around are saying, and Geshem confirms it, that you and the Jews are planni...
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7
and you have even arranged for prophets in Jerusalem to announce for you, ‘There is a king in Judah....
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8
I replied, telling him, “Nothing's happening like you're saying! In fact you're just making it all u...
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9
They were all just trying to scare us, telling themselves, “They won't have the strength to work so...
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10
Later on, I went to Shemaiah's house (he was the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel) who had shut hims...
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11
I replied, “Should someone like me run away? Should someone like me go and hide in the Temple so I c...
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12
I thought about it and saw that God (Elohim) hadn't sent him, but that he had spoken this prophecy a...
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13
They'd hired him thinking I'd be scared into doing something wrong. Then they'd be able to point the...
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14
My God (Elohim), remember Tobiah and Sanballat for doing this, and Noadiah the prophetess and the ot...
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15
The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul. It took fifty-two days.
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16
When all our enemies found out they were frightened; all the nations around were very discouraged, f...
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17
At that time the nobles of Judah were exchanging many letters with Tobiah,
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because many people in Judah had sworn an oath of loyalty to him as he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah...
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