3. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?
4. Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort, and I answered them after the same manner.
5. Then Sanballat sent his slave to say the same thing for the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
6. in which was written, It is reported among the Gentiles, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou dost build the wall, that thou may be their king, according to these words.