Verse 3

and say to the king, `Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, `is' a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 1:3 : 3 and they say to me, `Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, `are' in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.'
  • 1 Kgs 1:31 : 31 And Bath-Sheba boweth -- face to the earth -- and doth obeisance to the king, and saith, `Let my lord, king David, live to the age.'
  • Dan 2:4 : 4 And the Chaldeans speak to the king `in' Aramaean, `O king, to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the interpretation we do shew.'
  • Dan 5:10 : 10 The queen, on account of the words of the king and his great men, to the banquet-house hath come up. Answered hath the queen, and said, `O king, to the ages live; let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor thy countenance be changed:
  • Ps 137:6 : 6 My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.
  • 2 Chr 21:20 : 20 A son of thirty and two `years' was he in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he goeth without desire, and they bury him in the city of David, and not in the graves of the kings.
  • 2 Chr 28:27 : 27 And Ahaz lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city, in Jerusalem, but have not brought him in to the graves of the kings of Israel, and reign doth Hezekiah his son in his stead.
  • 2 Chr 32:33 : 33 And Hezekiah lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the uppermost of the graves of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done honour to him at his death, and reign doth Manasseh his son in his stead.
  • Dan 6:6 : 6 Then these presidents and satraps have assembled near the king, and thus they are saying to him: `O king Darius, to the ages live!
  • Dan 6:21 : 21 Then Daniel hath spoken with the king: `O king, to the ages live:
  • Dan 3:9 : 9 they have answered, yea, they are saying to Nebuchadnezzar the king, `O king, to the ages live!
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes `are' among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.
  • Ps 102:14 : 14 For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.