 | Tom Malone - 2000 - 170 pages
...meet together in some one of the villages" (Neh, 6:2) and Nehemiah sent them this classic- answer, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:...work cease, while I leave it and come down to you?" (Neh. 6:3). 6. The enemies tried to frighten them by threatening words. They said, "Their hands shall... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 2001 - 128 pages
...he gave, and like him repeat it as oft as they repeat their solicitations, "I am doing a great work; why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you?" Do they pretend friendship, and send in the name of thy mother and thy brethren standing without to... | |
 | Angelina Mascari - 2004 - 226 pages
...high on the wall when he was made afraid by his foes and tempted to compromise his position, he said, ...I Am doing a great work, so that I cannot come...work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you? (Nehemiah 6:3). Nehemiah hid in the secret place, he walked on the straight road that turned not, and... | |
 | Jacob L. Wright - 2004 - 396 pages
...in the plain of Ono." But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down....work cease, while I leave it and come down to you?" 4 Yet they sent unto me [four] several times (B'OJIB) in this way, and I answered them in the same... | |
 | Charles Foster Kent - 2005 - 345 pages
...<«'-«> on the plain of Ono.* But they planned to do me injury. So I sent messengers to them, saying, 'I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down;...work cease, while I leave it and come down to you?' And they sent to me in this way four times, and I gave them the same answer. Then Sanballat sent his... | |
 | W. G. Jordan - 2005 - 349 pages
...into useless conference; what is the use of talking it over with men who are seeking to do mischief ? "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:...work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you ? " When he repeats this four times surely they will understand. Even a prophet's plea that he will... | |
 | Stephanie Butler - 2006 - 137 pages
...order to meet with them. Nehemiah recognized this as a plot to do him harm, thus sent word back saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:...work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?" What a powerful response! If we are to increase our ability to become a people who finish the work,... | |
 | 1840 - 354 pages
...meet together." But, Christian, beware; give them Nehemiah's answer — " I am doing a great work ; why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you ?" A deeper plot is now laid for Nehemiah ; they suborn Shemaiah ; and in the tone of a prophet, he... | |
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I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease, while I leave it and come down to you ? ' 4And they sent to me in this way four times, and I gave them the same answer. 
