Nehemiah 1:11
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11 O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.[a] Put it into his heart to be kind to me.”
In those days I was the king’s cup-bearer.
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- 1:11 Hebrew today in the sight of this man.
Nehemiah 1:6
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6 listen to my prayer! Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel. I confess that we have sinned against you. Yes, even my own family and I have sinned!
Nehemiah 2:8
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8 And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king’s forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.
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Proverbs 21:1
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21 The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord;
he guides it wherever he pleases.
Nehemiah 2:1
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Nehemiah Goes to Jerusalem
2 Early the following spring, in the month of Nisan,[a] during the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign, I was serving the king his wine. I had never before appeared sad in his presence.
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- 2:1 Hebrew In the month of Nisan. This month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred within the months of April and May 445 B.c.
Hebrews 13:18
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18 Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in everything we do.
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Ezra 7:6
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6 This Ezra was a scribe who was well versed in the Law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given to the people of Israel. He came up to Jerusalem from Babylon, and the king gave him everything he asked for, because the gracious hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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Psalm 130:2
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2 Hear my cry, O Lord.
Pay attention to my prayer.
Psalm 86:6
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6 Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord;
hear my urgent cry.
Ezra 7:27-28
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Ezra Praises the Lord
27 Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem! 28 And praise him for demonstrating such unfailing love to me by honoring me before the king, his council, and all his mighty nobles! I felt encouraged because the gracious hand of the Lord my God was on me. And I gathered some of the leaders of Israel to return with me to Jerusalem.
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Ezra 1:1
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Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Return
1 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia,[a] the Lord fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah.[b] He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom:
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- 1:1a The first year of Cyrus’s reign over Babylon was 538 B.c.
- 1:1b See Jer 25:11-12; 29:10.
Genesis 40:21
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21 He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.
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Isaiah 26:8-9
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8 Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws;
our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.
9 In the night I search for you;
in the morning[a] I earnestly seek you.
For only when you come to judge the earth
will people learn what is right.
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- 26:9 Hebrew within me.
Genesis 40:23
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23 Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer, however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought.
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Proverbs 1:29
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29 For they hated knowledge
and chose not to fear the Lord.
Genesis 43:14
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14 May God Almighty[a] give you mercy as you go before the man, so that he will release Simeon and let Benjamin return. But if I must lose my children, so be it.”
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- 43:14 Hebrew El-Shaddai.
Genesis 41:9
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9 Finally, the king’s chief cup-bearer spoke up. “Today I have been reminded of my failure,” he told Pharaoh.
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Genesis 40:9-13
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9 So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me. 10 The vine had three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe grapes. 11 I was holding Pharaoh’s wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
12 “This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches represent three days. 13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift you up and restore you to your position as his chief cup-bearer.
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Genesis 40:2
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2 Pharaoh became angry with these two officials,
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Genesis 32:28
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28 “Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel,[a] because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”
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- 32:28 Jacob sounds like the Hebrew words for “heel” and “deceiver.” Israel means “God fights.”
Genesis 32:11
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11 O Lord, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children.
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