KJV:
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
NASB:
I said to the king, "If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may rebuild it."
KJV:
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
NASB:
Then the king said to me, the queen sitting beside him, "How long will your journey be, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a definite time.
KJV:
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
NASB:
Then I came to the governors of the provinces beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.
KJV:
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
NASB:
then Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono." But they were planning to harm me.
KJV:
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?
NASB:
So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"
KJV:
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
NASB:
They sent messages to me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same way.
KJV:
Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
NASB:
Then Sanballat sent his servant to me in the same manner a fifth time with an open letter in his hand.
KJV:
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
NASB:
Then I sent a message to him saying, "Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind."