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Nehemiah 2:3 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 2 · verse 3
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?Nehemiah 2:3 · King James Version
Nehemiah 2:3 in context
1And 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 presence.
2Wherefore 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,
3And 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?
4Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
5And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- countenancepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- sepulchresqebera sepulchreH6913 →
- fathers'ʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- placebayitha houseH1004 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
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When Nehemiah had prayed for the relief of his countrymen, and perhaps in David's words (Psa 51:18, Build thou the walls of Jerusalem), he did not sit still and say, "Let God now do his own work, for I have no more to do," but set himself to forecast what he could do towards it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8