Thematic Bible
Nehemiah 2:1 (show verse)
In the month Nisan in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, when the wine stood before him, I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king and I was heavy in his presence.
Nehemiah 2:2 (show verse)
Then said the king unto me, "Why lookest thou so sadly? Thou art not sick, that is not the matter, but thou art heavy hearted."
Nehemiah 2:3 (show verse)
Nevertheless I was sore afraid and said unto the king, "God save the king's life forever, should I not look sadly? The city of my fathers' burial lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire."
Nehemiah 2:4 (show verse)
Then said the king unto me, "What, then, is thy request?" Then made I my prayer to the God of heaven,
Nehemiah 2:5 (show verse)
and said unto the king, "If it please the king, and if thy servant be favoured in thy sight, I beseech thee: send me in to Judah unto the city of my fathers' burial, that I may build it."
Nehemiah 2:6 (show verse)
And the king said unto me, the queen his wife sitting by him, "How long shall thy journey continue, and when wilt thou come again?" And it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time,
Nehemiah 2:7 (show verse)
and said unto the king, "If it please the king, let him give me letters to the captains beyond the water, that they may convey me over, till I come into Judah:
Nehemiah 2:8 (show verse)
And letters unto Asaph the lord of the king's wood, that he may give me wood for beams to the gates of the palace, which are hard on the house and hard on the walls of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into." And the king gave me according to the good hand of God upon me.
Nehemiah 2:9 (show verse)
And when I came to the captains beyond the water, I gave them the king's letters. And the king sent captains and horsemen with me.
Nehemiah 2:10 (show verse)
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites heard that, it grieved them sore that there was come a man which sought the wealth of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 2:11 (show verse)
And when I came to Jerusalem, and had been there three days,
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Nehemiah 2:12 (show verse)
I gat me up in the night season, and a few men with me: for I told no man what God had given me in my heart to do at Jerusalem. And there was not one beast with me, save it that I rode upon.
Nehemiah 2:13 (show verse)
And I rode by night unto the valley port before the Dragon well, and to the Dung port, and considered the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down, and the ports thereof consumed with the fire.
Nehemiah 2:14 (show verse)
And I went over unto the well port, and to the king's conduit; and there was no room for my beast, that it could go under me.
Nehemiah 2:15 (show verse)
Then went I on in the night by the brook side, and considered the wall, and turned back and came home again to the valley port.
Nehemiah 2:16 (show verse)
And the rulers knew not whither I went or what I did: for hitherto had I not told the Jews and the priests, the councilors and the rulers, and the others that laboured in the work.
Nehemiah 2:17 (show verse)
And I said unto them, "Ye see the misery that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and how the gates thereof are burnt with fire. Come, let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, that we be no more a rebuke."
Nehemiah 2:18 (show verse)
And I told them of the good hand of my God which was upon me; and the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, "Then let us get up and build," and strengthened their hands to good.
Nehemiah 2:19 (show verse)
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, "What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away again from the king?"
Nehemiah 2:20 (show verse)
Then answered I them, and said, "The God of heaven, he it is that causeth us to prosper: and we be his servants. Let us get up and build. As for you: ye have no portion, nor right, nor remembrance in Jerusalem."