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Bishop's Bible

Nehemiah 6:4

Howbeit, they sent vnto me as good as foure times after the same maner: And I gaue them the same aunswere.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fellowship;   Geshem;   Tobiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Geshem or Gashmu;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Geshem;   Nehemiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sanballat ;   Tobiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sanballat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Sanballat;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Four;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Numbers and Numerals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Four times they sent me the same proposal, and I gave them the same reply.
Hebrew Names Version
They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
King James Version
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
English Standard Version
And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.
New Century Version
Sanballat and Geshem sent the same message to me four times, and each time I sent back the same answer.
New English Translation
They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.
Amplified Bible
They sent word to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same way.
New American Standard Bible
Then they sent messages to me four times worded in this way, and I answered them with the same wording.
World English Bible
They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet they sent vnto me foure times after this sort. And I answered them after the same maner.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I responded to them in the same manner.
Berean Standard Bible
Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
Contemporary English Version
They invited me four times, but each time I refused to go.
Complete Jewish Bible
They kept sending this sort of message to me — four times — and I answered them the same way.
Darby Translation
And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them in the same manner.
Easy-to-Read Version
Sanballat and Geshem sent the same message to me four times, and I sent the same answer back to them each time.
George Lamsa Translation
But they sent to me four times in this manner, and I answered them after the same manner.
Good News Translation
They sent me the same message four times, and each time I sent them the same reply.
Lexham English Bible
And they sent a message to me four times like this, and I returned an answer like this to them.
Literal Translation
And they sent to me four times in this way. And I answered them in the same way.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Howbeit they sent vnto me as good as foure tymes after the same maner. And I gaue the same answere.
American Standard Version
And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Bible in Basic English
And four times they sent to me in this way, and I sent them the same answer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
King James Version (1611)
Yet they sent vnto me foure times, after this sort; and I answered them after the same maner.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they sent to me again to this effect; and I sent them word accordingly.
English Revised Version
And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli thei senten to me `bi this word bi foure tymes, and Y answeride to hem by the formere word.
Update Bible Version
And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Webster's Bible Translation
Yet they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
New King James Version
But they sent me this message four times, and I answered them in the same manner.
New Living Translation
Four times they sent the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
New Life Bible
They sent word to me four times in this way, and I gave them the same answer.
New Revised Standard
They sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet they sent unto me, according to this message, four times, - and I replied to them according to this answer.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.
Revised Standard Version
And they sent to me four times in this way and I answered them in the same manner.
Young's Literal Translation
and they send unto me, according to this word, four times, and I return them [word] according to this word.
THE MESSAGE
Four times they sent this message and four times I gave them my answer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.

Contextual Overview

1 And when Sanaballat, Tobia, and Gesem the Arabian, and the other of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there were no mo gappes therein: (howebeit at the same time had I not hanged the doores vpon the gates,) 2 Sanaballat and Gesem sent vnto me, saying: Come, that we may meete & take counsel together in the villages that are in the playne of the citie Ono. Neuerthelesse, they thought to do me euill. 3 And I sent messengers vnto them, saying: I haue a great businesse to do, and I can not come downe: Why should the worke ceasse, whilest I leaue it and come downe to you? 4 Howbeit, they sent vnto me as good as foure times after the same maner: And I gaue them the same aunswere. 5 Then sent Sanaballat his seruaunt againe vnto me the fift time, with an open letter in his hande, 6 Wherein was written: It is tolde the heathen, and Gesem hath saide it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebel: for the which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayst be their king, according to these wordes: 7 And hast ordayned the prophetes to preache of thee at Hierusalem, and to say, He is king of Iuda. And now shall this come to the kinges eares: come now therefore, and let vs take our counsell together. 8 And I sent vnto him, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest, for thou fainest them out of thyne owne heart. 9 For they were all minded to make vs afrayde, saying, They shall withdrawe their handes from their worke, that it shall not be finished: Nowe therefore strengthen thou my hande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

four times: Judges 16:6, Judges 16:10, Judges 16:15-20, Proverbs 7:21, Luke 18:5, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 2:5

and I answered: Proverbs 14:15

Cross-References

Genesis 6:15
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
Genesis 6:20
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.
Genesis 6:21
And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.
Genesis 6:22
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.
Genesis 11:4
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.
Numbers 13:33
And there we sawe also giauntes the chyldren of Anac [whiche come] of the giauntes: And we seemed in our sight as it were grashoppers, and so we dyd in their sight.
Numbers 16:2
And they rose vp before Moyses, with certayne of the children of Israel, two hundred & fiftie, which were captaynes of the multitude, famous in the congregation, and men of renoune.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og kyng of Basan, remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes, whose bed was a bed of iron: And is it not yet at Rabbath among ye children of Ammon? Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there came a man betweene the both, out of the tentes of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath: sixe cubites and a handbreadth long:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort,.... Being very desirous of getting him into their hands, and therefore were very pressing and importunate:

and I answered them after the same manner; every time as before, he being as much bent on finishing the work as they were to divert him from it.


 
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