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Nehemiah 2:4 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 2 · verse 4
Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.Nehemiah 2:4 · King James Version
Nehemiah 2:4 in context
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.
6And 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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Key words (Strong's)
- requestbâqashto search outH1245 →
- prayedpâlalto judgeH6419 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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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