Nehemiah 6:3-5

New International Version - UK

³ so I sent messengers to them with this reply: ‘I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?’ ⁴ Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

⁵ Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his assistant to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter