Nehemiah 6:3
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?”Nehemiah 6:3 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — નહેમ્યા ૬:૩
- મેં તેઓની પાસે સંદેશવાહકો મોકલીને જણાવ્યું, “હું એક મોટું કામ કરવામાં રોકાયેલો છું, માટે મારાથી આવી શકાય તેમ નથી. હું તે પડતું મૂકીને તમારી પાસે આવીને શા માટે કામ પડતું મૂકું?”
- हिन्दी — नहेम्याह ६:३
- परन्तु मैंने उनके पास दूतों के द्वारा कहला भेजा, “मैं तो भारी काम में लगा हूँ, वहाँ नहीं जा सकता; मेरे इसे छोड़कर तुम्हारे पास जाने से वह काम क्यों बन्द रहे?”
In context
1Now 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),
2Sanballat 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.
3I 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?”
4They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
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