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Nehemiah 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Nehemiah Sent to Judah
Nehemiah Sent to Jerusalem

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:1 - And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart.” So I became dreadfully afraid,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - and said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4 - Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:6 - Then the king said to me (the queen also sitting beside him), “How long will your journey be? And when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - Furthermore I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of the region beyond the River,[fn] that they must permit me to pass through till I come to Judah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - “and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple,[fn] for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - Then I went to the governors in the region beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:10 - When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official[fn] heard of it, they were deeply disturbed that a man had come to seek the well-being of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah Views the Wall of Jerusalem

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11 - So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:15 - So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:16 - And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:18 - And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:19 - But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:20 - So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
That is, the Euphrates, and so elsewhere in this book
Literally house
Literally servant, and so elsewhere in this book
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