Nehemiah 2:5
And I said to the king, If it seem good to the king, and if your servant shall have found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send him into Juda, to the city of the sepulchres of my fathers; then will I rebuild it.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the king said to me, For what do you ask thus? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:22And Joab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, To-day your servant knows that I have found grace in your sight, my lord, O king, for my lord the king has performed the request of his servant.
Esther 1:19If then it seem good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: and let not the queen come in to him any more; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.
Esther 7:3And she answered and said, If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.
Proverbs 3:4so shall you find favor: + 3:4 Alex. + 'and write them on the table of your heart.' and do you + 3:4 See Rom 12:17. provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.
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 →