the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Darby's French Translation
Néhémie 2:3
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Et je répondis au roi: Que le roi vive à jamais! Comment n'aurais-je pas mauvais visage, quand la ville, lieu des tombeaux de mes pères, demeure désolée, et que ses portes ont été consumées par le feu?
et je répondis au roi: Que le roi vive éternellement! Comment n'aurais-je pas mauvais visage, lorsque la ville où sont les sépulcres de mes pères est détruite et que ses portes sont consumées par le feu?
Et je répondis au Roi : Que le Roi vive éternellement! Comment mon visage ne serait-il pas mauvais, puisque la ville qui est le lieu des sépulcres de mes pères, demeure désolée, et que ses portes ont été consumées par le feu?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Let the king: Far from wishing ill to my master, I wish him to live forever. 1 Kings 1:31, Daniel 2:4, Daniel 3:9, Daniel 5:10, Daniel 6:6, Daniel 6:21
the city: Nehemiah 1:3, Psalms 102:14, Psalms 137:6, Lamentations 2:9
the place: 2 Chronicles 21:20, 2 Chronicles 28:27, 2 Chronicles 32:33
Reciprocal: Genesis 47:30 - General Leviticus 26:31 - And I will make Nehemiah 2:13 - the walls Esther 4:8 - request Esther 8:6 - the evil Psalms 74:3 - the perpetual Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Psalms 137:5 - I forget Isaiah 5:5 - I will take Isaiah 44:26 - and I will Jeremiah 8:21 - the hurt Jeremiah 51:50 - remember
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And I said unto the king, let the king live for ever,.... Which some think he said to take off the king's suspicion of his having a design upon his life, though it seems to be a common salutation of the kings in those times, see Daniel 6:6,
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? a man's native place, and where his ancestors lie interred, being always reckoned near and dear, the king and his nobles could not object to his being concerned for the desolations thereof.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The city ... of my fathersâ sepulchres - We may conclude from this that Nehemiah was of the tribe of Judah, as Eusebius and Jerome say that he was.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Nehemiah 2:3. Let the king live for ever — Far from wishing ill to my master, I wish him on the contrary to live and prosper for ever. AELIAN, Hist. Var. lib. i. c. 32, uses the same form of speech in reference to Artaxerxes Mnemon, one of the Persian kings, ÎαÏÎ¹Î»ÎµÏ ÎÏÏαξεÏξη, δι' αιÏÎ½Î¿Ï Î²Î±ÏÎ¹Î»ÎµÏ Î¿Î¹Ï, "O King Artaxerxes, may you reign for ever," when speaking of the custom of presenting them annually with an offering of earth and water; as if they had said, May you reign for ever over these!
