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Chapter 2 And it came to pass in the month
Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes

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the king, that wine was before him.

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And I took up the wine and gave it unto
the king.

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Now I had not been before time sad in his
presence.

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Wherefore the king said unto me,
Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou

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art not sick?

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This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.

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Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto
the king, Let the king live for ever.

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Why should not my countenance be sad,
when the city, the place of my father's

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sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates
thereof are consumed with fire?

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Then the king said unto me, For what dost
thou make request?

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So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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And I said unto the king, If it please the
king, and if thy servant have found favour

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in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me
unto Judah, unto the city of my father's

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sepulchres, that I may build it.

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And the king said unto me, The queen also
sitting by him.

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For how long shall thy journey be?

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And when wilt thou return?

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So it pleased the king to send me.

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And I set him a time.

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Moreover, I said unto the king,
If it please the king, Let letters be

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given me to the governors beyond the
river, that they may convey me over till I

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come into Judah.

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And a letter unto Asaph, the keeper of the
king's forest, that he may give me timber

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to make beams for the gates of the palace,
which appertain to the house, and for the

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wall of the city, and for the house that I
shall enter into.

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And the king granted me, according to the
good hand of my God upon me.

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Then I came to the governors beyond the
river and gave them the king's letters.

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Now the king had sent captains of the army
and horsemen with me.

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When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the
servant, the Ammonite, heard of it,

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it grieved them exceedingly that there was
come a man to seek the welfare of the

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children of Israel.

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So I came to Jerusalem and was there three
days.

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And I arose in the night, I and some few
men with me.

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Neither told I any man what my God had put
in my heart to do at Jerusalem.

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Neither was there any beast with me,
save the beast that I rode upon.

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And I went out by night by the gate of the
valley, even before the dragon well,

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and to the dung port, and viewed the walls
of Jerusalem, which were broken down,

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and the gates thereof were consumed with
fire.

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Then I went on to the gate of the fountain
and to the king's pool, but there was no

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place for the beast that was under me to
pass.

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Then went I up in the night by the brook,
and viewed the wall, and turned back,

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and entered by the gate of the valley,
and so returned.

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And the rulers knew not whither I went,
or what I did.

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Neither had I as yet told it to the Jews,
nor to the priests, nor to the nobles,

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nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that
did the work.

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Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress
that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste,

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and the gates thereof are burned with
fire.

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Come, and let us build up the wall of
Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

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Then I told them of the hand of my God
which was good upon me, as also the king's

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words that he had spoken unto me.

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And they said, Let us rise up and build.

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So they strengthened their hands for this
good work.

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But when Sanballat the Horonite,
and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite,

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and Geshem the Arabian heard it,
they laughed as to scorn and despised us,

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and said, What is this thing that ye do?

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Will ye rebel against the king?

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Then answered I them, and said unto them,
The God of heaven, he will prosper us.

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Therefore we his servants will arise and
build.

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But ye have no portion, nor rite,
nor memorial in Jerusalem.