Nehemiah 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Let now

Nehemiah 1:6

Psalm 86:6

Psalm 130:2

Who desire

Proverbs 1:29

Isaiah 26:8

Hebrews 13:18

Grant

For i was

Nehemiah 2:1

Genesis 40:2

Genesis 41:9

General references

Exodus 3:21

Jeremiah 42:12

Daniel 1:9

Bible References

Let now

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

Who desire

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Grant

And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

For i was

And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

General references

And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:

And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.