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Nehemiah Chapter 2

Nehemiah
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Nehemiah

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Nehemiah goes to the people of Jerusalem and asks them to bring timber, stone, and other materials for rebuilding the walls. The people respond by providing the needed resources and also a well of water, showing their willingness to cooperate.

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(1) And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
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Esther 3:7Nehemiah 1:1Ezra 7:1Ezra 7:7Nehemiah 1:11Genesis 40:11Genesis 40:21

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Mark 2:22Esther 3:7Matthew 9:17Revelation 14:10Exodus 12:18Numbers 6:3

(2) Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
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Genesis 40:7Proverbs 15:13

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Ezekiel 27:35Lamentations 1:12Philippians 2:27Genesis 4:6

(3) And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
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I Kings 1:31Daniel 2:4Daniel 3:9Daniel 5:10Daniel 6:6Daniel 6:21Nehemiah 1:3Psalms 102:14Psalms 137:6Lamentations 2:9II Chronicles 21:20II Chronicles 28:27

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Revelation 21:13Ezekiel 33:11Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Genesis 4:6Nehemiah 2:2

(4) Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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I Kings 3:5Esther 5:3Esther 5:6Esther 7:2Mark 10:51Nehemiah 1:4Nehemiah 1:11II Samuel 15:31Proverbs 3:6Philippians 4:6

(5) And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
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Ezra 5:17Esther 1:19Esther 5:8Esther 7:3Esther 8:5Ruth 2:13II Samuel 14:22Proverbs 3:4

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Job 14:13

(6) And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
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Nehemiah 2:4Nehemiah 1:11Isaiah 58:12Isaiah 61:4Isaiah 65:24Nehemiah 5:14Nehemiah 13:6

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 4:1II Kings 8:12Psalms 13:1I Samuel 6:3Jeremiah 15:19

(7) Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
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Nehemiah 2:9Ezra 6:6Ezra 7:21Ezra 8:22

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Ezra 6:6Nehemiah 2:9Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2

(8) And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
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Nehemiah 2:17Nehemiah 3:1Nehemiah 3:2Nehemiah 3:3Nehemiah 3:4Nehemiah 3:5Nehemiah 3:6Nehemiah 3:7Nehemiah 3:8Nehemiah 3:9Nehemiah 3:10Nehemiah 3:11

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Esther 2:8Esther 8:8Revelation 21:13Esther 2:3Esther 4:2Psalms 45:15

(9) Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
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Ezra 8:22

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Ezra 6:6Ezra 8:36Nehemiah 2:7Esther 3:12Esther 8:8Deuteronomy 1:15

(10) When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
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Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 4:1Nehemiah 4:2Nehemiah 4:3Nehemiah 4:7Nehemiah 6:1Isaiah 15:5Jeremiah 48:5Jeremiah 48:34Proverbs 30:22Ecclesiastes 10:7Nehemiah 13:1

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Nehemiah 2:19Zephaniah 2:3

(11) So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
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Ezra 8:32

(12) And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
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Genesis 32:22Genesis 32:23Genesis 32:24Joshua 10:9Judges 6:27Judges 9:32Matthew 2:14Ecclesiastes 3:7Amos 5:13Micah 7:5Matthew 10:16Ezra 7:27

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Revelation 4:7Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15Genesis 9:10Genesis 37:20

(13) And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
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Nehemiah 2:15Nehemiah 3:13II Chronicles 26:9Nehemiah 3:14Nehemiah 12:31Nehemiah 2:3Nehemiah 2:17Nehemiah 1:3Jeremiah 5:10

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 48:31II Kings 25:4Nehemiah 2:15Jeremiah 52:7

(14) Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
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Nehemiah 3:15II Kings 18:17II Kings 20:20II Chronicles 32:30

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Revelation 4:7Nehemiah 3:15Esther 3:3Esther 4:2

(15) Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
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II Samuel 15:23Jeremiah 31:38Jeremiah 31:39Jeremiah 31:40John 18:1

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Nehemiah 2:13II Kings 1:5Zechariah 14:10II Chronicles 26:9

(16) And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
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Exodus 18:21Exodus 18:25Nehemiah 4:14Nehemiah 4:19Esther 8:9Nehemiah 11:1

(17) Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
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Lamentations 2:2Lamentations 2:8Lamentations 2:9Lamentations 3:51Ezra 5:1Ezra 5:2Ezra 10:2Ezra 10:3Ezra 10:4Isaiah 35:3Isaiah 35:4Nehemiah 1:3

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Nehemiah 1:3Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 2:3II Chronicles 26:6Revelation 21:12Nehemiah 13:19

(18) Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
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II Samuel 2:7I Chronicles 11:10I Chronicles 19:13II Chronicles 32:5Ezra 6:22Haggai 1:13Haggai 1:14Ephesians 6:10Philippians 2:13

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Esther 8:8Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(19) But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
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Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 6:1Nehemiah 6:2Nehemiah 6:9Job 30:1Psalms 44:13Psalms 44:14Psalms 79:4Psalms 80:6Jeremiah 20:8Mark 5:40Hebrews 11:36

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Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 6:1II Kings 19:21Isaiah 37:22

(20) Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
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Nehemiah 2:4II Chronicles 26:5Psalms 20:5Psalms 35:27Psalms 102:13Psalms 102:14Psalms 122:6Ecclesiastes 7:18Ezra 4:3Acts 8:21Exodus 28:29Leviticus 2:2

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Ezekiel 45:7

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