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Nehemiah 2:4

American Standard Version

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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Nehemiah 2:4 in other translations

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?”
So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 2:4 · World English Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 in context

  1. 2And 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.
  2. 3And I 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?
  3. 4Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
  4. 5And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
  5. 6And 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.