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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF NEH 2:1 The King Talks with Nehemiah.
It was in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Arthakshasta, when he was at wine, that I carried the wine, and gave it to the King, but my face was sad before him,
RF NEH 2:2 so the King asked me, "Why is your face sad, when you are not ill? That can be nothing except sorrow at heart!" Then I was very much afraid,
RF NEH 2:3 but replied to the King; "May the King live for ever!—Why should not my face be sad, when the town of the tombs of my fathers is ashes, and its gates consumed by fire?"
RF NEH 2:4 When the King answered, "What do you ask for?" So I prayed to the GOD OF THE HEAVENS,
RF NEH 2:5 and said to the king, "If it seems good to the king, and if your servant has favour before you, it is to send me to Judea to the burial town of my fathers,—and I will rebuild it."
RF NEH 2:6 The King then asked me—and the Queen sat beside him—"How long will you be gone? and when will you return? "
The King makes him Governor of Jerusalem.
Thus it pleased the King, and he sent me, and I fixed a time with him,
RF NEH 2:7 and said to the king, "If it is pleasing to the king, let them give me letters to the Governors of the Over-river, so that they may allow me to proceed until I arrive at Judea.
RF NEH 2:8 And letters to Asaph, the Keeper of the King's Paradises,1 that he may give me timber to construct the Gates of the Burial-place belonging to the spot, and for the walls of the town, and for the house I am going to." The King consequently gave me them by the good influence of GOD upon me,
RF NEH 2:9 and I proceeded to the Governors of the Over-river, and gave them the letters of the king. The King had also sent with me Officers of the Army and cavalry.
RF NEH 2:10 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah his slave, the Amonite, heard the affair, it grieved them very greatly, that a man should come to try to benefit the Children of Israel.
RF NEH 2:11 I, however, went to Jerusalem and was there three days;
RF NEH 2:12 but had risen in the night, and a few men with me, and had informed no man what GOD bad put into my heart to do for Jerusalem,—and I had no animal with me, except the animal I rode upon,
RF NEH 2:13 and at night I went out by the Valley Gate, opposite the Snakes' Well, and on to the Dung Gate, and I saw the walls of Jerusalem that were shattered and broken and its Gates consumed by fire.
RF NEH 2:14 From there I passed to the Well Gate, and the King's Reservoir, but there was not a place for my animal to pass through.
RF NEH 2:15 I afterwards went and viewed by night along the brook, and surveyed the shattered wall,—thence I turned and entered by the Vale Gate, and came back.
RF NEH 2:16 But the Deputy Governors did not know that I had gone, or what I had done; nor had I informed the Jews, or the Priests, or the Deputies, or the nobles, and the rest, what I had done.
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1 NOTE.—Parks or Forests.
RF NEH 2:17 I said, however, to them, "You see the misery that we are in.—How Jerusalem is ashes, and its gates burnt with fire. Let us go and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, when we shall no longer be an object of contempt."
RF NEH 2:18 I also explained to them the beneficent hand of the EVER-LIVING that was with me, as well as the promises of the King which he had promised me, when they replied, "We will arise and rebuild"; and they invigorated their hands for good.—
RF NEH 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah his slave, the Amonite, and Geshem, the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at, and jeered about us, and asked "What is this business that you are doing? Are you going to rebel against the king?"
RF NEH 2:20 I, however, replied to them, and said: "The GOD OF THE HEAVENS has given us prosperity, so we rise up and build;—but you have no share in it, nor right, nor traditions in Jerusalem."




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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