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yere of kingArtahshashte, the wine stoode before
him, and I tooke vp the wine, and gaue it vnto
The Book of Nehemiah the King. nowe I was not before time sad in his
presence. And the king said vnto me, Why is thy
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1 The words of Nehemiah the sonne of coutenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? this
Hachaliah. In ye moneth Chisleu, in the twen- is nothing, but sorow of heart. Then was I sore
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tieth yeere, as I was in the palace of Shushan, afrayd, And I said to the King, God saue the King
2 Came Hanam, one of my brethren, he and for euer: why should not my countenance be sad,
the men of Iudah, and I asked them concerning when the citie and house of the sepulchres of
the Iewes that were deliuered, which were of my fathers lieth waste, and the gates thereof are
the residue of the captiuitie, and concerning deuoured with fire? And the King said vnto me,
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Ierusalem. 3 And they sayde vnto me, The For what thing doest thou require? Then I prayed
residue that are left of the captiuitie there in the to the God of heauen, And sayde vnto the King, If
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prouince, are in great affliction and in reproche, it please the King, and if thy seruant haue found
and the wall of Ierusalem is broken downe, and fauour in thy sight, I desire that thou wouldest
the gates thereof are burnt with fire. And when send me to Iudah vnto the city of the sepulchres
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I heard these wordes, I sate downe and wept, and of my fathers, that I may buyld it. And the King
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mourned certeine dayes, and I fasted and prayed sayd vnto me, (the Queene also sitting by him)
before the God of heauen, 5 And sayde, O Lord How long shall thy iourney be? and when wilt
God of heauen, the great and terrible God, that thou come againe? So it pleased the King, and he
keepeth couenant and mercy for them that loue sent me, and I set him a time. After I saide vnto
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him, and obserue his commandements, I pray the King, If it please the King, let them giue mee
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thee, let thine eares be attet, and thine eies open, letters to the captaines beyond the Riuer, that
to heare the praier of thy seruat, which I pray they may conuay me ouer, till I come into Iudah,
before thee dayly, day and night for ye childre 8 And letters vnto Asaph the keeper of the Kings
of Israel thy seruats, and confesse the sinnes parke, that hee may giue me timber to buylde
of the children of Israel, which we haue sinned the gates of the palace (which apperteined to the
against thee, both I and my fathers house haue house) and for the walles of the citie, and for
sinned: We haue grieuously sinned against thee, the house that I shall enter into. And the King
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and haue not kept the commandements, nor the gaue me according to the good hand of my God
statutes, nor the iudgements, which thou com- vpon me. Then came I to the captaines beyonde
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mandedst thy seruant Moses. 8 I beseeche thee, the Riuer, and gaue them the Kings letters. And
remember the worde that thou commandedst
thy seruant Moses, saying, Ye wil transgresse, the King had sent captaines of the armie and
and I will scatter you abroade among the people. horsemen with me. 10 But Sanballat the Horonite,
and Tobiah a seruant an Ammonite heard it, and
9 But if ye turne vnto me, and keepe my comman- it grieued them sore, that there was come a man
dements, and doe them, though your scattering which sought the wealth of the children of Israel.
were to the vttermost part of the heauen, yet 11 So I came to Ierusalem, and was there three
will I gather you from thence, and will bring you dayes. 12 And I rose in the night, I, and a fewe
vnto the place that I haue chosen to place my men with me: for I told no man, what God had
Name there. 10 Now these are thy seruants and put in mine heart to do at Ierusalem, and there
thy people, whome thou hast redeemed by thy was not a beast with me, saue the beast whereon
great power, and by thy mightie hand. 11 O Lord, I rode. 13 And I went out by night by the gate
I beseech thee, let thine eare now hearken to the of the valley, and came before the dragon well,
prayer of thy seruant, and to the prayer of thy and to the dung porte, and vewed the walles of
seruants, who desire to feare thy Name, and I Ierusalem, howe they were broken downe, and
pray thee, cause thy seruant to prosper this day, theportesthereofdeuouredwiththefire. 14 Then
and giue him fauour in the presence of this man: I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and
for I was the Kings butler. to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowme
Then
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for the beast that was vnder me to passe.
2 went I vp in ye night by the brooke, and viewed
1 Nowe in the moneth Nisan in the twentieth the wall, and turned backe, and comming backe,