Nehemiah 2:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

And I said to the king, “May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the site of my fathers’ tombs, is desolate 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 bodyguards, 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 for 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 lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel; and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:33

So Hezekiah lay down 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 his son Manasseh became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 36:19

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

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and disgrace, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been 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, and I was inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which had been consumed by fire.

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the disaster which will happen to my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Psalm 102:14

Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And feel pity for 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

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 sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part 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 was in the service of 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 leaders are among the nations; The Law is gone. Her prophets, too, find No vision from the Lord.

Daniel 2:4

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

Daniel 3:9

They began to speak 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 began to speak and said, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.

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 spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!

Leviticus 26:31

I will turn your cities into ruins as well and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.