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Nehemiah Chapter 2 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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BBE Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
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DARBY Nehemiah 2:4

And the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of the heavens.
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KJV Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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WBT Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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WEB Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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YLT Nehemiah 2:4

And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? Artaxerxes understood that a complaint was contained in Nehemiah's speech, and that he must have a request to make. With gracious kindliness he facilitates its utterance. So I prayed to the God of heaven. Nehemiah was emphatically a man of prayer. In every danger, in every difficulty, still more at any crisis, prayer rose to his lips (see Nehemiah 4:4, 9; Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah 6:9, 14; Nehemiah 13:14, etc.). Sometimes, as now, the prayer was offered silently and swiftly.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) So I prayed to the God of heaven.--The first note of that habit of ejaculatory prayer which is a characteristic of this book.