Verse 2
Nehemiah 2:2
Geneva Bible
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And the king said vnto me, Why is thy coutenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? this is nothing, but sorow of heart. Then was I sore afrayd,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ לִ֨/י הַ/מֶּ֜לֶךְ מַדּ֣וּעַ פָּנֶ֣י/ךָ רָעִ֗ים וְ/אַתָּה֙ אֵֽינְ/ךָ֣ חוֹלֶ֔ה אֵ֣ין זֶ֔ה כִּי אִ֖ם רֹ֣עַֽ לֵ֑ב וָ/אִירָ֖א הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹֽד
English Translation
And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart, and I am very much afraid."
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Chapter 2 Context
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Nowe in the moneth Nisan in the twentieth yere of king Artahshashte, the wine stoode before him, and...
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And the king said vnto me, Why is thy coutenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? this is nothing, bu...
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And I said to the King, God (Elohim) saue the King for euer: why should not my countenance be sad, w...
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And the King said vnto me, For what thing doest thou require? Then I prayed to the God (Elohim) of h...
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And sayde vnto the King, If it please the King, and if thy seruant haue found fauour in thy sight, I...
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And the King sayd vnto me, (the Queene also sitting by him) How long shall thy iourney be? and when...
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After I saide vnto the King, If it please the King, let them giue mee letters to the captaines beyon...
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And letters vnto Asaph the keeper of the Kings parke, that hee may giue me timber to buylde the gate...
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Then came I to the captaines beyonde the Riuer, and gaue them the Kings letters. And the King had se...
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But Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah a seruant an Ammonite heard it, and it grieued them sore, tha...
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So I came to Ierusalem, and was there three dayes.
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And I rose in the night, I, and a fewe men with me: for I told no man, what God (Elohim) had put in...
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And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and came before the dragon well, and to the dung...
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Then I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowm...
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Then went I vp in ye night by the brooke, and viewed the wall, and turned backe, and comming backe,...
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And the rulers knewe not whither I was gone, nor what I did, neither did I as yet tell it vnto the I...
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Afterward I said vnto them, Ye see the miserie that we are in, how Ierusalem lyeth waste, and the ga...
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Then I tolde them of the hande of my God (Elohim), (which was good ouer me) and also of the Kings wo...
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But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the seruant an Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it...
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Then answered I them, and sayd to them, The God (Elohim) of heauen, he will prosper vs, and we his s...
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