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Nehemiah 2:4

Nehemiah 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

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 , ; ; , ; , etc.

). Sometimes, as now, the prayer was offered silently and swiftly.

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