Nehemiah 2:3

Modern English Version

and said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should not my face be troubled when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Cross References

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground in reverence to the king and said, “Let my lord King David live forever.”

2 Kings 25:8

In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21:20

He was thirty-two when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. 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 of Jerusalem because they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. Then Hezekiah his son was king in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:33

So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper tombs of the sons of David. And all those from Judah and those living in Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 36:19

So they burned down the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, burned down all the palaces with fire, and destroyed all the precious items.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant that returned from captivity is there in the province enduring great affliction and reproach. Also, the wall of Jerusalem remains broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

So I went out by night by the Valley Gate toward the Dragon’s Well and then to the Refuse Gate, because I was inspecting the broken-down walls of Jerusalem and its burned gates.

Esther 8:6

For how am I able to watch the evil that will unfold against my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Psalm 102:14

For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and take pity on her dust.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Psalm 137:6

If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my highest joy.

Psalm 38:7

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

Jeremiah 52:12

Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon came into 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, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.

Daniel 2:4

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will tell the interpretation.”

Daniel 3:9

They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever.

Daniel 5:10

Now the queen came into the banquet house because of the words of the king and his nobles. And the queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts trouble you, or let your countenance be changed.

Daniel 6:21

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

Daniel 6:6

Then these presidents and officials assembled together to the king, and said to him: “King Darius, live forever!

Leviticus 26:31

I will make your cities a waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your fragrant offerings.