Charles Ellicott Commentary Nehemiah 6:2

"that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief." — Nehemiah 6:2 (ASV)

Sanballat and Geshem. —In the original of Nehemiah 6:1, Tobiah is not distinguished from Sanballat by another preposition, as Geshem is; and here he is omitted, so as not to appear in the conference other than as Sanballat’s secretary.

In one of the villages in the plain of Ono. —Probably, in Hahkiphirem, the name of a village in the plain of Ono, which was on the borders of Philistia, more than twenty miles from Jerusalem.