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Selected Verse: Nehemiah 2:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ne 2:4 |
Strong Concordance |
Then the king [04428] said [0559] unto me, For what dost thou make request [01245]? So I prayed [06419] to the God [0430] of heaven [08064]. |
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King James |
Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| I prayed to the God of heaven - Mentally and momentarily, before answering the king. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Then the king, feeling interested, asked him: For what dost thou make request? על בּקּשׁ, to make request for or concerning a thing, like Ezr 8:23; Est 4:8; Est 7:7. The question shows that the king was inclined to relieve the distress of Jerusalem which had been just stated to him. "And so I prayed to the God of heaven," to ensure divine assistance in the request he was about to lay before the king. Then Nehemiah answered (Neh 2:5), "If it please the king, and if thy servant is well-pleasing before thee, (I beg) that thou wouldest send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it." לפני ייטב, here and Est 5:14, is of like meaning with בּעיני ייטב or טּוב, Est 8:5; Sa2 18:4 : if thy servant is right in thine eyes, i.e., if he thinks rightly concerning the matter in question. The matter of his request is directly combined with this conditional clause by אשׁר, the connecting term, I beg, being easily supplied from the king's question: For what dost thou beg? |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Let, &c. - My sadness comes not from any disaffection to the king, for whom my hearty prayers are that he may live for ever; but from another cause. Sepulchres - Which by all nations are esteemed sacred and inviolable. He saith not a word of the temple as he spake before a Heathen king who cared for none of these things. I prayed - To direct my thoughts and words, and to incline the king's heart to grant my request. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| So I prayed to the God of heaven - Before he dared to prefer his request to the king, he made his prayer to God, that his suit might be acceptable: and this he does by mental prayer. To the spirit of prayer every place is a praying place. |
4 And the king [04428] said [0559] unto them, What seemeth [05869] you best [03190] I will do [06213]. And the king [04428] stood [05975] by the gate [08179] side [03027], and all the people [05971] came out [03318] by hundreds [03967] and by thousands [0505].
5 And said [0559], If it please [02896] the king [04428], and if I have found [04672] favour [02580] in his sight [06440], and the thing [01697] seem right [03787] before [06440] the king [04428], and I be pleasing [02896] in his eyes [05869], let it be written [03789] to reverse [07725] the letters [05612] devised [04284] by Haman [02001] the son [01121] of Hammedatha [04099] the Agagite [091], which he wrote [03789] to destroy [06] the Jews [03064] which are in all the king's [04428] provinces [04082]:
14 Then said [0559] Zeresh [02238] his wife [0802] and all his friends [0157] unto him, Let a gallows [06086] be made [06213] of fifty [02572] cubits [0520] high [01364], and to morrow [01242] speak [0559] thou unto the king [04428] that Mordecai [04782] may be hanged [08518] thereon: then go [0935] thou in merrily [08056] with the king [04428] unto the banquet [04960]. And the thing [01697] pleased [03190] [06440] Haman [02001]; and he caused [06213] the gallows [06086] to be made [06213].
5 And I said [0559] unto the king [04428], If it please [02895] the king [04428], and if thy servant [05650] have found favour [03190] in thy sight [06440], that thou wouldest send [07971] me unto Judah [03063], unto the city [05892] of my fathers [01]' sepulchres [06913], that I may build [01129] it.
7 And the king [04428] arising [06965] from the banquet [04960] of wine [03196] in his wrath [02534] went into the palace [01055] garden [01594]: and Haman [02001] stood up [05975] to make request [01245] for his life [05315] to Esther [0635] the queen [04436]; for he saw [07200] that there was evil [07451] determined [03615] against him by the king [04428].
8 Also he gave [05414] him the copy [06572] of the writing [03791] of the decree [01881] that was given [05414] at Shushan [07800] to destroy [08045] them, to shew [07200] it unto Esther [0635], and to declare [05046] it unto her, and to charge [06680] her that she should go in [0935] unto the king [04428], to make supplication [02603] unto him, and to make request [01245] before [06440] him for her people [05971].
23 So we fasted [06684] and besought [01245] our God [0430] for this: and he was intreated [06279] of us.