The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Nehemiah 2:6 (King James 2000 Bible)
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

 

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Nehemiah 2:7 (ASV)

we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:8 (ASV)

Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:

 

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Nehemiah 2:9 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

 

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Nehemiah 2:7 (ASV)

we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

Nehemiah 2:8 (ASV)

Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:

Should be.......

Nehemiah 2:7-8
Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah; 8And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

 

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Nehemiah 2:10 (ERV)
And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

 

[Deade]

Sorry about the blunder. I somehow got back into chapter one.

Nehemiah 2:11 (ASV)

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:12 (ASV)

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

 

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Nehemiah 2:13 (ERV)
And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:14 (ASV)

Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:15 (ASV)

Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

 

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Nehemiah 2:16 (KJV)
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:17 (ESV)

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:18 (ESV)

And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

 

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Nehemiah 2:19 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?'

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 2:20 (NIV)

I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 3:1 (NIV)

Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the Tower of Hananel.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 3:2 (MKJV)

And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

 

[Deade]

Nehemiah 3:3 (MKJV)

But the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate, who laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

 

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Nehemiah 3:4 (ERV)
And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.