Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 16:3
Source: Septuagint
3So I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, and I shall not be able to come down, lest the work should cease: as soon as I shall have finished it, I will come down to you.
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1Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no opening left therein ( but hitherto I had not set up the doors on the gates);
2that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they were plotting to do me mischief.
— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 16:3 —
4And they sent to me again to this effect; and I sent them word accordingly.
5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.