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Nehemia 2:5

kemudian jawabku kepada raja: "Jika raja menganggap baik dan berkenan kepada hambamu ini, utuslah aku ke Yehuda, ke kota pekuburan nenek moyangku, supaya aku membangunnya kembali."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Country;   Nehemiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burial;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Canon;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Malachi;   Persia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Grave;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezra, the Book of;   Nehemiah, the Book of;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Tomb, Grave, Sepulchre;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Persia;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Per'sia;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Good;   Self-Surrender;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Patriotism;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
kemudian jawabku kepada raja: "Jika raja menganggap baik dan berkenan kepada hambamu ini, utuslah aku ke Yehuda, ke kota pekuburan nenek moyangku, supaya aku membangunnya kembali."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu sembahku kepada baginda: Jikalau tuanku sudi dan tuanku berkenan akan patik di hadapan hadirat tuanku, suruhkan apalah patik ke tanah Yehuda, ke negeri tempat pekuburan nenek moyang patik, supaya patik bangunkan dia pula.

Contextual Overview

1 It came to passe, that in the moneth Nisan in the twentith yere of king Arthaxerxes, the wine stoode before him: and I toke vp the wine, and gaue it vnto the king: And I had not ben before heauy in his presence. 2 And the king sayde vnto me: Why lokest thou so sadly, seyng thou art not sicke? It is nothing els, but that thou art heauy hearted. And I was sore afrayde, 3 And sayde vnto the king, God saue the king for euer: Howe shoulde I not loke sadly, when the citie and place of my fathers burials lye waste, and the gates therof are consumed with fire? 4 And the king sayde vnto me: What is then thy request? I made my prayer also to the God of heauen, 5 And sayd vnto the king: If it please the king, and if thy seruaunt haue founde fauour in thy sight, sende me vnto Iuda vnto the citie of my fathers burialles, that I may buylde it. 6 And the king sayd vnto me (the queene his wyfe sitting by him:) Howe long shal thy iourney continue, and when wilt thou come againe? And it pleased the king to sende me, and I set him a time, 7 And sayde vnto the king: If it please the king, let hym geue me letters to the captaynes whiche are beyonde the water, that they may conuay me ouer, till I come into Iuda: 8 And letters vnto Asaph the lorde of the kinges wood, that he may geue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which is harde by the house, and for the walles of the citie, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king gaue me according to the hande of my God which was good vpon me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If it please: Ezra 5:17, Esther 1:19, Esther 5:8, Esther 7:3, Esther 8:5

and if thy: Ruth 2:13, 2 Samuel 14:22, Proverbs 3:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:27 - favour Genesis 39:4 - Joseph Genesis 47:30 - General Nehemiah 13:6 - after certain days Isaiah 58:12 - build

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.
Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Genesis 2:12
And the golde of the lande is very good. There is also Bdellium, and the Onix stone.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
And she proceading, brought foorth his brother Habel, and Habel was a keper of sheepe, but Cain was a tyller of the grounde.
Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.
Job 5:10
He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
Psalms 104:14
He causeth grasse to growe for cattell: and hearbes for the vse of man.
Psalms 135:7
He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth: he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth, he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the gods of the gentiles that sende rayne, or geue the showres from heauen? Art not thou thy selfe our Lorde God? we wyll trust in thee, for thou doest all these thynges.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I said unto the king; if it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight,.... He submits what he had to say wholly to the pleasure of the king, and puts it upon his unmerited favour, and not on any desert of his own:

that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it; the wall of it, and the houses in it; the favour was, that he might have leave to go thither, and set about such a work, for which he was so much concerned.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 2:5. The city of my fathers' sepulchres — The tombs of the dead were sacred among the ancients, and nothing could appear to them more detestable than disturbing the ashes or remains of the dead. Nehemiah knew that in mentioning this circumstance he should strongly interest the feelings of the Persian king.


 
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