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Nehemiah 2 📜 📕 ↷
Nehemiah Sent to Jerusalem
1 AND it came to pass in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: and there was wine before him, and I lifted up the wine, and gave to the king: and I was as it were languishing before his face.📜💬📚
2 And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, whereas I do not see thee sick? This is not without cause, but some evil I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was very much & exceedingly afraid:📜💬📚
3 and I said to the king: O king for ever mayst thou live: why should not my countenance be heavy, because the city of the house of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, & the gates thereof are burnt with fire?📜💬📚
4 And the king said to me: For what thing makest thou request? And I prayed the God of heaven,📜💬📚
5 and I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant do please before thy face, that thou send me into Jewry to the city of the sepulchre of my father, & I will build it.📜💬📚
6 And the king said to me, & the queen that sat by him: Unto what time will thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased before the king, and he sent me: and I appointed him a time.📜💬📚
7 And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the River, that they conduct me, till I come into Jewry:📜💬📚
8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave according to the good hand of my God with me.📜💬📚
9 And I came to the dukes of the country beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. And the king had sent with me captains of soldiers, and horsemen.📜💬📚
10 And Sanaballat an Horonite, and Tobias a servant an Ammanite heard it, and were grieved with great affliction, that a man was come, which sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.📜💬📚
Nehemiah Inspects the Walls
11 And I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.📜💬📚
12 And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast whereon I sat.📜💬📚
13 And I went out by the gate of the valley by night, and before the fountain of the dragon, and to the gate of the dung, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem broken down, and the gates thereof consumed with fire.📜💬📚
14 And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's conduit, and there was no place for the beast where on I sat, to pass.📜💬📚
15 And I went up by the torrent in the night, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.📜💬📚
16 But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: yea and to the Jews, and the Priests, and the nobles, and the magistrates, and the rest that did the work, until then I had shewed nothing.📜💬📚
17 And I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is made desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: Come, and let us build the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.📜💬📚
18 And I shewed them the hand of my God, that it was good with me, and the king's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise, and let us build. And their hands were encouraged in good.📜💬📚
19 But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant an Ammanite, and Gosem an Arabian heard of it, and they scorned us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? Why do you rebel against the king?📜💬📚
20 And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise and build: but you have no part, nor justice, nor memory in Jerusalem.📜💬📚
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