1. When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that there was not a gap in it (though at that time I had not erected the doors on the gates),
2. Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, that we might meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.”But they planned to do evil to me.
3. So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so I am not able to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”
4. Four more times they sent for me like this, but I answered them the same way.