Nehemiah 2:3
I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
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Nehemiah 2:3
I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
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Nehemiah 1:2
Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 2:1
In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
Nehemiah 2:2
The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
Nehemiah 2:3
I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 2:5
I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
Nehemiah 2:13
I went out by night by the valley gate toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate; and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.
Nehemiah 2:14
Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah 2:15
Then I went up in the night by the brook and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
Nehemiah 2:16
The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
Micah 3:12
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
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Daniel 2:4
Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
1 Kings 1:31
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”
Daniel 3:9
They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!
Daniel 5:10
The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
Daniel 6:6
Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!
Daniel 6:21
Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!
Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
1 Kings 1:25
For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’
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Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Psalms 102:13
You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
Psalms 102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
Psalms 137:5
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
Psalms 137:6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 Samuel 10:12
Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
1 Kings 11:21
When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”
1 Chronicles 19:13
Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”
Isaiah 66:10
“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
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Esther 8:6
For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
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Genesis 49:29
He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis 50:25
Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
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Daniel 9:27
He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the decreed full end, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
Nehemiah 7:4
Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
Daniel 9:25
“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
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