And I sent messengers unto them,.... He did not show any open contempt of them, nor did he even return answer by the messenger that came from them, but sent some of his own people to them:saying, I am doing a great work; was about an affair of great importance, very busy, and not at leisure to give them a meeting:so that I cannot come down; Jerusalem being built on an eminence, and the place proposed to meet at in a plain, going thither is expressed by coming down:why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
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Nehemiah 6:3
Nehemiah 6:3
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