Nehemiah 2:1
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Nehemiah Sent to Judah
2 In the month of Nisan, (A)in the twentieth year of King (B)Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, (C)I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
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Nehemiah 2:3
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3 I said to the king, (A)“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, (B)when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
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Nehemiah 2:8
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8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of (A)the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, (B)for the good hand of my God was upon me.
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