Verse 3

I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why shouldn't my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?"

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 1:3 : 3 They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."
  • 1 Kgs 1:31 : 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!"
  • Dan 2:4 : 4 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
  • Dan 5:10 : 10 [Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
  • Ps 137:6 : 6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
  • 2 Chr 21:20 : 20 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
  • 2 Chr 28:27 : 27 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Chr 32:33 : 33 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • Dan 6:6 : 6 Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.
  • Dan 6:21 : 21 Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.
  • Dan 3:9 : 9 They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
  • Ps 102:14 : 14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.