Nehemiah 2:3

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Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”

Daniel 2:4

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever.”

Psalm 137:6

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.

Daniel 5:10

The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.

Daniel 6:6

Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!

Daniel 6:21

Then Daniel spoke to the king, “O king, live forever!

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 28:27

So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:33

So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper section of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh became king in his place.

Psalm 102:14

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from the Lord.

Daniel 3:9

They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: “O king, live forever!

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Summary

Nehemiah 2:3

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Let the king

Daniel 6:6

The city

The place

2 Chronicles 21:20

2 Chronicles 28:27

2 Chronicles 32:33

General references

Genesis 47:30

Psalm 102:14

Bible References

Let the king

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever.”

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in

Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: “O king, live forever!

The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.

Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!

The city

They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not

exalt Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find

No vision from the Lord.

The place

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed

with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

General references

but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.