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Nehemiah 2:1
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And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the
twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up
the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his
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| Nehemiah 2:2 |
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Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy
countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of
heart. Then I was very sore afraid, |
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| Nehemiah 2:3 |
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And said unto the king, Let the king live for
ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'
sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? |
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| Nehemiah 2:4 |
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Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou
make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. |
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| Nehemiah 2:5 |
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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. |
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| Nehemiah 2:6 |
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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. |
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| Nehemiah 2:7 |
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Moreover I said unto the king, If it please
the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they
may convey me over till I come into Judah; |
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| Nehemiah 2:8 |
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And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's
forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which
appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that
I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my
God upon me. |
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| Nehemiah 2:9 |
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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. |
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| Nehemiah 2:10 |
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When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was
come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. |
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| Nehemiah 2:11 |
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So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three
days. |
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| Nehemiah 2:12 |
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And I arose in the night, I and some few men
with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem:
neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. |
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| Nehemiah 2:13 |
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And I went out by night by the gate of the valley,
even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem,
which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. |
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| Nehemiah 2:14 |
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Then I went on to the gate of the fountain,
and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me
to pass. |
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| Nehemiah 2:15 |
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Then went I up in the night by the brook, and
viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so
returned. |
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| Nehemiah 2:16 |
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And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what
I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the
nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work. |
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| Nehemiah 2:17 |
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Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that
we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire:
come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. |
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| Nehemiah 2:18 |
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Then I told them of the hand of my God which
was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they
said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good
work. |
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| Nehemiah 2:19 |
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But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah
the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to
scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel
against the king? |
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| Nehemiah 2:20 |
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Then answered I them, and said unto them, The
God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build:
but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. |
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