Nehemiah 1:4

Lighthouse Bible 2006

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore pleaded with God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

2 Kings 22:19

Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.

2 Chronicles 6:13

For Solomon had made a brass scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

Ezra 1:2

Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has instructed me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 10:1

Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, there assembled to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very bitterly.

Ezra 9:3

And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished.

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my mourning; and having torn my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

Nehemiah 2:20

Then I answered them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Psalm 102:15

So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.

Psalm 136:26

O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endures for ever.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Daniel 10:2

In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

Daniel 2:18

That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

Jonah 1:9

And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.

Zephaniah 3:18

I will gather those who long for the solemn assembly, who are of your people, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.