Nehemiah 2:3

Legacy Standard Bible

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

Cross References

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever.”

2 Kings 25:8

Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21:20

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 28:27

So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:33

So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper section of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 36:19

Then they burned the house of God and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who remain from the captivity are in great calamity and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Spring and on to the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the perishing of my kinsmen?”

Psalm 102:14

For Your slaves find pleasure in its stones And show grace to its dust—

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Psalm 137:6

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

Psalm 38:7

For my loins are filled with burning, And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Jeremiah 52:12

Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The law is no more. Also, her prophets find No vision from Yahweh.

Daniel 2:4

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Say the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

Daniel 3:9

They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king: “O king, live forever!

Daniel 5:10

The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen answered and said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or the splendor of your face be changed.

Daniel 6:21

Then Daniel spoke to the king, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 6:6

Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and said thus to him: “King Darius, live forever!

Leviticus 26:31

And I will give your cities over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.