Nehemiah 1:11
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11 O Lord, I pray, please (A)let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who (B)desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
For I was the king’s (C)cupbearer.
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Nehemiah 1:6
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6 please let Your ear be attentive and (A)Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and (B)confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
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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 must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the [a]citadel which pertains (A)to the [b]temple, for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me (B)according to the good hand of my God upon me.
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- Nehemiah 2:8 palace
- Nehemiah 2:8 Lit. house
Nehemiah 2:1
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Nehemiah Sent to Judah
2 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of (A)King [a]Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that (B)I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before.
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- Nehemiah 2:1 Artaxerxes Longimanus
Hebrews 13:18
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Prayer Requested
18 (A)Pray for us; for we are confident that we have (B)a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.
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Proverbs 21:1
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The Lord Considers the Heart
21 The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord,
Like the [a]rivers of water;
He turns it wherever He wishes.
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- Proverbs 21:1 channels
Ezra 7:6
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6 this Ezra came up from Babylon; and he was (A)a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, (B)according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
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Psalm 130:2
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2 Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.
Psalm 86:6
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6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;
And attend to the voice of my supplications.
Ezra 7:27-28
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27 (A)Blessed[a] be the Lord God of our fathers, (B)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, 28 and (C)has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes.
So I was encouraged, as (D)the hand of the Lord my God was upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me.
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Ezra 1:1
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End of the Babylonian Captivity(A)
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord (B)by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, (C)so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
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Genesis 40:21
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21 Then he (A)restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and (B)he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
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Isaiah 26:8-9
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8 Yes, (A)in the way of Your judgments,
O Lord, we have (B)waited for You;
The desire of our soul is for Your name
And for the remembrance of You.
9 (C)With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Genesis 40:23
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23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but (A)forgot him.
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Genesis 41:9
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9 Then the (A)chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying: “I remember my faults this day.
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Genesis 40:9-13
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9 Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “Behold, in my dream a vine was before me, 10 and in the vine were three branches; it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes. 11 Then Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
12 And Joseph said to him, (A)“This is the interpretation of it: The three branches (B)are three days. 13 Now within three days Pharaoh will (C)lift up your head and restore you to your [a]place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand according to the former manner, when you were his butler.
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- Genesis 40:13 position
Proverbs 1:29
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Genesis 43:14
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14 And may God (A)Almighty (B)give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. (C)If I am bereaved, I am bereaved!”
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Genesis 32:28
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28 And He said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but [a]Israel; for you have (B)struggled with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.”
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- Genesis 32:28 Lit. Prince with God
Genesis 32:11
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11 (A)Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and [a]attack me and (B)the mother with the children.
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- Genesis 32:11 Lit. strike
Genesis 40:2
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2 And Pharaoh was (A)angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker.
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