Nehemiah 2:5
3 and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
4 “What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
6 Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
7 I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
- KJV
- And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
- WEB
- I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
- ASV
- And 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.
- DARBY
- And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
- BLB
- and I said to the king, “If to the king [it is] good, and if your servant has found favor in your eyes, [I ask] that you send me to Judah, to the city of the tombs of my fathers, and I will rebuild it.”
- ÅB
- og så sa jeg til kongen: Om kongen så synes, og dersom du har godhet for din tjener, så ber jeg at du vil la meg reise til Juda, til den by hvor mine fedres graver er, så jeg kan bygge den opp igjen.
- OTB
- Og jeg sa til kongen: “Hvis det behager kongen, og hvis din tjener har funnet nåde for dine øyne, send meg til Juda, til byen hvor mine forfedres graver er, så jeg kan gjenoppbygge den.”
- B1930
- og så sa jeg til kongen: Om kongen så synes, og dersom du har godhet for din tjener, så ber jeg at du vil la mig reise til Juda, til den by hvor mine fedres graver er, så jeg kan bygge den op igjen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Samuel 14:22
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
Read in contextRuth 2:13
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
Read in contextEsther 8:5
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Read in contextEzra 5:17
Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.
Read in contextEsther 5:8
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
Read in contextProverbs 3:4
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
Read in contextEsther 7:3
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
Read in contextEsther 1:19
So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
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