Nehemiah 2:4

“Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.”

"Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven." - Nehemiah 2:4
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What does Nehemiah 2:4 mean?

In Nehemiah 2:4 (KJV), the verse reads, "Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven." This verse comes from the book of Nehemiah, which is part of the Old Testament and is set in the time of the Persian Empire. It follows the…

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O Sovereign God of Heaven and Earth, I come before You in profound reverence, my soul akin to Nehemiah’s in the midst of his tribulation. In the face of daunting challenges and great uncertainty, I reflect upon the moment when Nehemiah stood before the king, trembling yet…

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Nehemiah 2:4 - "Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven."
Nehemiah 2:4 (KJVA) 4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 2:4 (KJVA) 4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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Nehemiah 12:4 - "Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,"
Nehemiah 10:4 - "Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,"
Nehemiah 4:2 - "And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?"
"Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah," - Nehemiah 12:4
"Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch," - Nehemiah 10:4
Nehemiah 4:4 - "Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:"
Nehemiah 4:8 - "And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it."
Nehemiah 12:2 - "Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,"
Nehemiah 10:2 - "Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,"
Nehemiah 4:17 – "Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other."
Nehemiah 7:4 - "Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded."
Nehemiah 4:17 – "Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other."
Nehemiah 13:4 - "¶ And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:"
Nehemiah 2:11 - "So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days."
Nehemiah 5:4 - "There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards."
Nehemiah 4:10 - "And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall."
Nehemiah 6:4 - "Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner."
Nehemiah 4:21 - "So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared."
"Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah," - Nehemiah 10:2
"Amariah, Malluch, Hattush," - Nehemiah 12:2
Nehemiah 4:5 - "And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders."
Nehemiah 4:18 - "For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me."
Nehemiah 4:6 - "So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work."