Nehemiah 6:4 KJV
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah 6:4, King James Version
In context
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;