Níxīmǐjì 6:3

3 Yúshì wǒ chāiqiǎn rén qù jiàn tāmen , shuō , wǒ xiànzaì bànlǐ dà gōng , bùnéng xià qù . yān néng tíng gōng xià qù jiàn nǐmen ne .

Níxīmǐjì 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3

And I sent messengers unto them
He did not show any open contempt of them, nor did he even return answer by the messenger that came from them, but sent some of his own people to them:

saying, I am doing a great work;
was about an affair of great importance, very busy, and not at leisure to give them a meeting:

so that I cannot come down;
Jerusalem being built on an eminence, and the place proposed to meet at in a plain, going thither is expressed by coming down:

why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
signifying that it would cease if he left it; and it being of greater consequence than anything they could have to converse about, he argues it would be wrong to relinquish it on such an account; this was the reason he thought fit to give, but was not the only, nor the principal reason, which is suggested in the preceding verse.

Níxīmǐjì 6:3 In-Context

1 Sānbālā , Duōbǐyǎ , Yalābó rén Jīshàn , hé wǒmen qíyú de chóudí , tīngjian wǒ yǐjing xiū wán le chéngqiáng , qízhōng méiyǒu pòliè zhī chù ( nàshí wǒ hái méiyǒu ān mén shān ) .

2 Sānbālā hé Jīshàn jiù dǎfa rén lái jiàn wǒ , shuō , qǐng nǐ lái , wǒmen zaì Anuó píngyuán de yī gè cūnzhuāng xiāng huì . tāmen què xiǎng haì wǒ .

3 Yúshì wǒ chāiqiǎn rén qù jiàn tāmen , shuō , wǒ xiànzaì bànlǐ dà gōng , bùnéng xià qù . yān néng tíng gōng xià qù jiàn nǐmen ne .

4 Tāmen zhèyàng sì cì dǎfa rén lái jiàn wǒ , wǒ dōu rúcǐ huídá tāmen .

5 Sānbālā dì wǔ cì dǎfa púrén lái jiàn wǒ , shǒu lǐ ná zhe wèi fēng de xìn ,