lesserot Nehemiah:2:1-10
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:1 @ And it came to pass in the month Nissan, in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, that wine before him; and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. But I had never been sad in his presence.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:2 @ Then said the king unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing but an illness of heart. Then was I very greatly afraid.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And I said unto the king, May the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers sepulchres, lieth ruined, and her gates are consumed by fire?
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:4 @ Then said the king unto me, For what then dost thou make request? Then did I pray to the God of heaven.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:5 @ And I said unto the king, If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant might be pleasing in thy presence, that thou wouldst send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers sepulchres, that I may build it.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:6 @ And the king said unto me, while the queen was sitting beside him, When is thy journey to be undertaken? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to let me go; and I indicated to him a time.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:7 @ And I said unto the king, If it seem good to the king, let letters be given unto me for the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till the time that I come into Judah;
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:8 @ Also a letter unto Assaph the keeper of the kings forests, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall move into. And the king gave to me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:9 @ And came I to the governors beyond the river, and I gave them the kings letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
lesserot@Nehemiah:2:10 @ When Sanballat the Choronite, and Tobiyah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it displeased them exceedingly, that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
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