NE-2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance

sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but

sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

NE-2:3 And 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?

NE-2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make

request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

NE-2:6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,

) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?

So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

NE-2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant,

the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed

us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing

that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

NE-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?

NE-5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed

our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and

will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us?

Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].

NE-5:9 Also I said, It [is] not good that ye do: ought ye not to

walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the

heathen our enemies?

NE-6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a

great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work

cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

NE-6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who [is

there], that, [being] as I [am], would go into the temple to

save his life? I will not go in.

NE-13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the

house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set

them in their place.

NE-13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said

unto them, What evil thing [is] this that ye do, and profane the

sabbath day?

NE-13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring

all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more

wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

NE-13:21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why

lodge ye about the wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay hands

on you. From that time forth came they no [more] on the sabbath.

NE-13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet

among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved

of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless

even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

NE-13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great

evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

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