Nehemiah 6:3

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Nehemiah 6:4

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believeth every word: But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

John 9:4

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.