Nehemiah 6:2-4

New Century Version

² So Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, Nehemiah, let’s meet together in Kephirim on the plain of Ono.”

But they were planning to harm me. ³ So I sent messengers to them with this answer: “I am doing a great work, and I can’t come down. I don’t want the work to stop while I leave to meet you.” ⁴ Sanballat and Geshem sent the same message to me four times, and each time I sent back the same answer.