Nehemiah 2:3
and I said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be said, forasmuch as the city, even the home of the sepulchres of my fathers, has been laid waste, and her gates have been devoured with fire?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the king said to me, For what dost thou ask thus? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:31And Bersabee bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
2 Chronicles 28:27And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David; for they did not bring him into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Ezekias his son reigned in his stead.
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, The remnant, even those that are left of the captivity, are there in the land, in great distress and reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem are thrown down, and its gates are burnt with fire.
Psalms 38:7Surely man walks in a + 38:7 Gr. image.shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
Psalms 102:15As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.
Lamentations 2:9Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 2:2-9
Nehemiah's Request to the King. ( b. c. 445.) 1 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. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, 3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when… Read the whole commentary →