Nehemiah 6:4 in the King James Version
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Context
3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”
4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,