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Nehemiah 6:4

And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner.

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howbeit, they sent vnto me as good as foure times after the same maner: And I gaue them the same aunswere.
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.
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 it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,) 2 Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down to you. 4 And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I answered them after the same manner. 5 And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner: 6 It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall, and hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end 7 Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things: therefore come now, that we may take counsel together. 8 And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart. 9 For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more:

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 thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Genesis 6:21
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
Genesis 6:22
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
Genesis 11:4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Numbers 13:33
(13-34) There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
Numbers 16:2
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:

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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