Nehemiah 2:4
Nehemiah chapter 2 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Context
v.3And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: 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?
v.4This passage
v.5And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 3:5
In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
- Mark 10:51
And Jesus answered him, and said, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And the blind man said unto him, Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.
- 2 Samuel 15:31
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
- Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
- Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cupbearer to the king.
- Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.