1And 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] to the king. Now I had not [before] been sad in his presence.stylusEzra 7:1, Ezra 7:1, Nehemiah 1:11, Nehemiah 1:11, Nehemiah 1:12Wherefore the king said to me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very greatly afraid,stylusProverbs 15:13, Proverbs 15:13, Genesis 40:7, Genesis 40:73And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, [lieth] waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?stylusNehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 1:3, Daniel 2:4, 1 Kings 1:31, Daniel 2:44Then the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.stylusNehemiah 1:4, Proverbs 3:6, Nehemiah 1:4, Proverbs 3:6, Philippians 4:65And I said to the king, If it should please the king, and if thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it.stylusEzra 5:17, Ezra 5:17, Esther 7:3, Ruth 2:13, Proverbs 3:46And the king said to me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.stylusNehemiah 13:6, Nehemiah 13:6, Nehemiah 5:14, Isaiah 65:24, Nehemiah 5:147Moreover, I said to the king, If it should please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah:stylusEzra 7:21, Ezra 7:21, Nehemiah 2:9, Ezra 8:36, Nehemiah 2:98And a letter to 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. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.stylusEzra 7:6, Ezra 7:6, Nehemiah 7:2, Isaiah 66:14, Nehemiah 7:29Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.stylusEzra 8:22, Ezra 8:2210When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there had come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.stylusNehemiah 4:7, Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 4:7, Nehemiah 2:19, Proverbs 27:411So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.stylusEzra 8:32, Ezra 8:3212And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.stylusRevelation 17:17, Ezra 7:27, Revelation 17:17, Ezra 7:27, 2 Corinthians 8:1613And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon-well, and to the dung-port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and their gates were consumed with fire.stylusNehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 1:3, 2 Chronicles 26:9, Nehemiah 2:17, Nehemiah 2:314Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass.stylusNehemiah 3:15, Nehemiah 3:15, 2 Kings 20:20, 2 Kings 20:20, 2 Chronicles 32:3015Then I went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and [so] returned.stylus2 Samuel 15:23, 2 Samuel 15:23, John 18:1, Jeremiah 31:38, Jeremiah 31:4016And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told [it] to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.stylus17Then said I to them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and its gates are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach.stylusEzekiel 5:14, Ezekiel 5:14, Nehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 1:3, Psalms 79:418Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work].stylusPhilippians 2:13, Philippians 2:13, 2 Chronicles 32:5, 2 Chronicles 32:5, 1 Chronicles 19:1319But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?stylusNehemiah 6:6, Nehemiah 6:6, Nehemiah 6:1, Nehemiah 6:2, Nehemiah 6:120Then I answered them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.stylusEzra 4:3, Acts 8:21, Ezra 4:3, Acts 8:21, Nehemiah 2:4