Nehemiah 6:2-4

2Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let’s meet together 1at Chephirim in the plain of 2Ono.” But they were plotting to 3harm me.

3So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and am unable to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

4Then they sent messages to me four times worded in this way, and I answered them with the same wording.