Nehemiah's Prayer Answered
Scriptures | Nehemiah 2:1-10 |
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Nehemiah Chapter 21 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.2 And the king said to me, āWhy is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.ā Then I was very much afraid.3 I said to the king, āLet the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathersā graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?ā4 Then the king said to me, āWhat are you requesting?ā So I prayed to the God of heaven.5 And I said to the king, āIf it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathersā graves, that I may rebuild it.ā6 And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), āHow long will you be gone, and when will you return?ā So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.7 And I said to the king, āIf it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the kingās forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.ā And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.9 Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the kingās letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. |
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