1 Now it happened ^awhen Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it ^b(though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates),  ‡

2 that Sanballat and Geshem ^asent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together² among the villages in the plain of ^bOno.” But they ^cthought to do me harm.  ‡

4 But they sent me this message four times, and I answered them in the same manner.

5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before, the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand.