Nehemiah 2:3

New Century Version

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! My face is sad because the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”

Cross References

1 Kings 1:31

Then Bathsheba bowed facedown on the ground and knelt before the king and said, “Long live my master King David!”

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuzaradan was the commander of the king’s special guards. This officer of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem on the seventh day of the fifth month, in Nebuchadnezzar’s nineteenth year as king of Babylon.

2 Chronicles 21:20

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he ruled eight years in Jerusalem. No one was sad when he died. He was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the graves for the kings.

2 Chronicles 28:27

Ahaz died and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but not in the graves of the kings of Israel. Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:33

Hezekiah died and was buried on a hill, where the graves of David’s ancestors are. All the people of Judah and Jerusalem honored Hezekiah when he died, and his son Manasseh became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 36:19

Nebuchadnezzar and his army set fire to God’s Temple and broke down Jerusalem’s wall and burned all the palaces. They took or destroyed every valuable thing in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

They answered me, “Those who are left from the captivity are back in Judah, but they are in much trouble and are full of shame. The wall around Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned.”

Nehemiah 2:13

I went out at night through the Valley Gate. I rode toward the Dragon Well and the Trash Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Esther 8:6

I could not stand to see that terrible thing happen to my people. I could not stand to see my family killed.”

Psalm 102:14

Your servants love even her stones; they even care about her dust.

Psalm 102:15

Nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings on earth will honor you.

Psalm 137:6

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not think about Jerusalem as my greatest joy.

Psalm 38:7

I am burning with fever, and my whole body is sore.

Jeremiah 52:12

Nebuzaradan, commander of the king’s special guards and servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem on the tenth day of the fifth month. This was in Nebuchadnezzar’s nineteenth year as king of Babylon.

Lamentations 2:9

Jerusalem’s gates have fallen to the ground; he destroyed and smashed the bars of the gates. Her king and her princes are among the nations. The teaching of the Lord has stopped, and the prophets do not have visions from the Lord.

Daniel 2:4

The wise men answered the king in the Aramaic language, “O king, live forever! Please tell us, your servants, your dream. Then we will tell you what it means.”

Daniel 3:9

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 5:10

Then the king’s mother, who had heard the voices of the king and his royal guests, came into the banquet room. She said, “O king, live forever! Don’t be afraid or let your face be white with fear!

Daniel 6:21

Daniel answered, “O king, live forever!

Daniel 6:6

So the supervisors and governors went as a group to the king and said: “King Darius, live forever!

Leviticus 26:31

I will destroy your cities and make your holy places empty, and I will not smell the pleasing smell of your offerings.