Nehemiah 2:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: Why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?

Cross References

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach: And the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.

1 Kings 1:31

And Bethsabee bowing with her face to the earth worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

Psalm 137:6

For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Lamentations 2:9

Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

2 Chronicles 32:33

And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him above the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated his funeral. And Manasses his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 28:27

And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem. For they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 21:20

He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly. And they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Psalm 102:14

for he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

Leviticus 26:31

Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours.

2 Kings 25:8

In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan commander of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers; and whatsoever was precious they destroyed.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate: and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.

Jeremiah 52:12

And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem.

Psalm 38:7

Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Psalm 102:15

man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.