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Nehemiah 2:6 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 2 · verse 6
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.Nehemiah 2:6 · King James Version
Nehemiah 2:6 in context
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.
7Moreover 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;
8And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sittingyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- journeymahălâka walkH4109 →
- pleasedyâṭabto be make well, literally or figurativelyH3190 →
- pleasedpânîymthe faceH6440 →
- returnshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- queenshêgâla queenH7694 →
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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