Nehemiah 2:1
And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.
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Nehemiah 2:1
And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.
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Genesis 39:3
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
Genesis 39:4
And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.
Genesis 39:5
And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.
Genesis 39:6
And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.
Genesis 41:42
Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;
Esther 1:1
Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)
Proverbs 22:29
Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.
Daniel 6:2
And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss.
Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.
Daniel 8:27
And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.
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Genesis 40:2
And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;
Genesis 40:9
Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;
Genesis 40:10
And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.
Genesis 40:12
Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;
Genesis 40:23
But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.
Genesis 41:9
Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now;
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Genesis 40:7
And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad?
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
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Exodus 23:15
You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:
Joshua 3:12
So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.
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1 Kings 10:5
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
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2 Kings 18:17
Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.
Nehemiah 2:12
And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.
Nehemiah 2:13
And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.
Nehemiah 2:14
Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.
Nehemiah 2:15
Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.
Nehemiah 2:16
And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.
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2 Chronicles 9:4
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
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Ezra 7:21
And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care,
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 2:5
And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.
Nehemiah 2:6
And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.
Nehemiah 2:8
And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.
Nehemiah 2:9
Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
Nehemiah 2:10
And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
Nehemiah 2:19
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
Nehemiah 2:20
Then answering them I said, The God of heaven, he will be our help; so we his servants will go on with our building: but you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 4:1
Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.
Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
Nehemiah 13:1
On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;
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Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Nehemiah 8:11
So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
Nehemiah 8:12
And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
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Nehemiah 12:2
Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
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Psalms 38:6
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
Psalms 42:11
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Proverbs 12:25
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
Proverbs 17:22
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
Mark 14:33
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.
Mark 14:34
And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
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Isaiah 46:8
Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.
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Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Hosea 6:2
After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.
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Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.
Haggai 1:1
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
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Zechariah 1:17
And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.
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