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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Nehemiah 6:2 in context
Nehemiah 6:1–5
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Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
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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.
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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?”
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They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
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Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
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