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Lexicon :: Strong's H413 - 'ēl

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אֵל
Transliteration
'ēl
Pronunciation
ale
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preposition
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Primitive particle
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Strong’s Definitions

אֵל ʼêl, ale; (but used only in the shortened constructive form אֶל ʼel, el); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to:—about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because (-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, × hath, in (-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to (-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with (-in).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H413 in the following manner: unto, with, against, at, into, in, before, to, of, upon, by, toward, hath, for, on, beside, from, where, after, within.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H413 in the following manner: unto, with, against, at, into, in, before, to, of, upon, by, toward, hath, for, on, beside, from, where, after, within.

  1. to, toward, unto (of motion)

  2. into (limit is actually entered)

    1. in among

  3. toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion)

  4. against (motion or direction of a hostile character)

  5. in addition to, to

  6. concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of

  7. according to (rule or standard)

  8. at, by, against (of one's presence)

  9. in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵל ʼêl, ale; (but used only in the shortened constructive form אֶל ʼel, el); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to:—about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because (-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, × hath, in (-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to (-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with (-in).
STRONGS H413: Abbreviations
אֶל (nearly always followed by Makkeph), in poetry אֱלֵי (compare עֲלֵי, עֲדֵי), but only in Job) † Job 3:22; Job 5:26; Job 15:22; Job 29:19), with suffix אֵלַי, אֵלֶיךָ, אֵלַיִךְ, etc. אֵלֵינוּ, אֲלֵיכֶם & (5 times) אֲלֵכֶם, אֲלֵיהֶם & אֲלֵהֶם (both very often); once אֵלֵימוֺ Psalm 2:5, אֲלֵיהֶן, once אֲלֵהֶן Exodus 1:19 (Assyrian ilî, Arabic إِلَع), preposition denoting motion to or direction towards (whether physical or mental).
1. of motion to or unto a person or place Genesis 2:19, 22; Genesis 3:19; Genesis 8:9; Genesis 14:22; Genesis 16:9 etc., after every kind of verb expressing motion (בּוֺא, הָלַךְ, יָצָא etc.) So with נָתַן to give (though ל is here more common) Genesis 21:14; Genesis 35:4; Deuteronomy 13:2 +; מָכַר to sell Deut 37:36, etc. Metaph. Jeremiah 2:19 וְלֹא פַחְדָּתִי אֵלַיִךְ and that my fear (cometh) not unto thee (compare Job 31:23). — Peculiarly Genesis 6:16 אֶל אַמָּה unto the length of a cubit, etc. And metaphor in the phrase אֶל־(אֱלֵי־)גִּיל unto exultation † Hosea 9:11; Job 3:22. Once, exceptionally (si vera lectio) = even: Job 5:5 וְאֶל־מִצִּגִּים יִקָּחֵהוּ and even out of thorns he taketh it. Sometimes pregnant, as Isaiah 66:17; Jeremiah 41:7 זָנָה אֶל commit whoredom (by going) to Numbers 25:1; Ezekiel 16:26, 28, 29; דָּרֵשׁ אֶל seek (by resorting) to one (that is, for oracles) Deuteronomy 18:11; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 11:10 +; חָבַר אֶל join together (& come) unto Genesis 14:3; הִשְׁכִּים אֶל rise early (and go) to Genesis 19:27; Genesis 24:11 הִבְרִיח אֶל made to kneel down at; Genesis 47:18 תַּם אֶל i.e. has been made over to; אֶל פָּחַד to come in fear to Hosea 3:5; Micah 7:17. Opposite is מִן, as מִן־הַקָּצֶה אֶל־הַקָּצֶה from end to end Exodus 26:28; אל־פֶּה מִפֶּה Ezra 9:11 (synonym 2 Kings 21:16 לָפֶה פֶּה). And of time (rare) מֵעֵת אֶל־עֵת † 1 Chronicles 9:25; מִיּוֺם אֶל־יוֺם † Numbers 30:15 (P) 1 Chronicles 16:23 (in the || Psalm 96:2 מִיּוֺם לְיוֺם).
2. Where the limit is actually entered, into, Genesis 6:18 and thou shalt enter into the ark Genesis 7:1; Genesis 19:3; Genesis 41:21; Genesis 42:17; & so after verbs of throwing, casting, putting Genesis 37:22 (הִשְׁלִיךְ) Genesis 39:20 וַיִּתְּנֵהוּ אֶל־בֵּית הַסֹּהַר put him into the prison house, Exodus 28:30 (Leviticus 8:8) Deuteronomy 23:25; so after קָבַר to bury Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:9; Genesis 49:29; שָׂחַט to squeeze Genesis 40:11; מָחָה to blot out Numbers 5:23, etc.; metaphor Genesis 6:6 was pained into or unto his heart, שָׂם אֶל־לֵב, הֵשִׁיב to place, bring. into)= lay to) heart Deuteronomy 4:39; 2 Samuel 19:20 and elsewhere In connection with a number or multitude into which something enters, in among: 1 Samuel 10:22 behold he had hid himself אֶל־הַכֵּלִים in among the baggage, Jeremiah 4:3 sow not אֶל־קֹצִים in among thorns.
3. Of direction towards anything:
(a) of physical acts or states, as Genesis 30:40 הַצּאֹן פְּנֵי נָתַן אֶל, Genesis 39:7 נָשָׂא עֵינָיו אֶל, Exodus 25:20; Numbers 6:26, נָשָׂא פָנָיו אֶל (2 Kings 9:32 differently), Numbers 24:1 אֶל פָּנָיו שָׁת, Joshua 8:18; Psalm 28:2; 1 Kings 8:29, 30 (to pray towards) 1 Kings 8:38; pregnantly חָרֵד אֶל to tremble (turning) to Genesis 42:28, תָּמַהּ אֶל to, wonder (turning) towards Genesis 43:33; Isaiah 13:8, פָּחַד אֶל Jeremiah 36:16: without a verb אֶל־פָּנִים פָּנִים face to face Genesis 32:31 +; אֶל־פֶּה פֶּה Numbers 12:8; כִּי־אֵינֶנּוּ אֵלַי Genesis 31:5 the face of Laban, that he is not toward me; אֶל־פ׳ עֵינֵי י׳ the eyes of י׳ are towards... Psalm 34:16 (compare Psalm 33:18).
(b) with words such as אָמַר to say to Genesis 3:1 + often, דִּבֶּר Genesis 8:15 + often, קָרָא Genesis 19:5, הִחְפַּלֵּל Genesis 20:17 etc., שָׁמַע to hearken to Genesis 16:11, הִלֵּל to praise to Genesis 12:15 (compare Ezekiel 13:19 חִלֵּל אֶל to profane to), הִזְכִּיר Ezekiel 40:14.
(c) with words expressing the direction of the mind, as קִוָּה to wait Psalm 27:14 +; יִחַל to hope Isaiah 51:5; נָשָׂא נֶפֶשׁ אֶל to lift up the soul (i.e. set the desire) towards Deuteronomy 24:15; Psalm 25:1; שָׂם לֵב אֶל, שָׁת to set the heart (mind) to Exodus 9:21 and elsewhere; לָמַד אֶל to accustom oneself to Jeremiah 10:2; חָרֵד אֶל to shew fear towards 2 Kings 4:13; Genesis 43:30; Deuteronomy 28:32 and thy eyes כָּלוֺת אֲלֵיהֶם failing (with longing) towards them, Lamentations 4:17; Isaiah 63:15; 2 Samuel 3:8; 1 Kings 14:13; Psalm 40:6; alone, as predicate, directed or disposed towards, Genesis 3:16; Genesis 4:7; 2 Kings 6:11 who of ours is towards (i.e. favours) the king of Syria? Hosea 3:3 וְגַם־אֲנִי אֵלָֽיִח׃ Ezekiel 36:9; Haggai 2:17; Jeremiah 15:1 (אֵין נַפְשִׁי אֶל).
4. Where the motion or direction implied appears from the context to be of a hostile character, אֶל = against: Genesis 4:8 אֶל־הֶבֶל וַיָּקָם ק׳ and Cain rose up against Abel (so 1 Samuel 24:8) 1 Samuel 22:12; Exodus 14:5; Numbers 32:14; with נִקְבַּץ Joshua 10:6, הָלַךְ Judges 1:10; Judges 20:30; with בָּא of calamity, etc., coming to or upon any one Genesis 42:21; Judges 9:57; 1 Samuel 2:34; 1 Kings 14:10 +; Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 3:8 their tongue and doings are אֶל־י׳ Isaiah 32:6 (לְדַבֵּר אֶל) Hosea 7:15 (compare Nahum 1:9) Hosea 12:5 וַיָּשַׂר אֶל־מַלְאָךְ and he strove against the angel. Here also belongs in particular the phrase ⬩⬩⬩הִנְנִי אֶל Behold I am against (thee, you, etc.) † Nahum 2:14; Nahum 3:5; Jeremiah 21:13 (Jeremiah 23:30-32 על) Jeremiah 50:31; Jeremiah 51:25; Ezekiel 13:8, 20; Ezekiel 21:8; Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:22; Ezekiel 34:10; Ezekiel 35:3; Ezekiel 38:3; Ezekiel 39:1 (Ezekiel 5:8; 26:3; 28:22; 29:3 על : on Ezekiel 36:9 see above)
5. Unto sometimes acquires from the context the sense of in addition to, as Leviticus 18:18 thou shalt not take אִשָּׁה אֶל אֲחוֺתָהּ a woman to, in addition to, her sister, Joshua 13:22 (|| Numbers 31:8 על); 1 Samuel 14:34 at eat אֶל־הַחָם together with the blood (1 Samuel 14:32 & generally עַל); 1 Kings 10:7 הוֺסִיף אֶל (generally עַל); Jeremiah 25:26; Ezekiel 7:26 שְׁמוּעָה אֶל שְׁמוּעָה (|| עלׅ); Ezekiel 44:7; Lamentations 3:41 let us lift up אֶל־כַּפָּ֑יִם לְבָבֵנוּ our hearts together with the hands (compare إِلَع, Qor 4:2; WAG ii. § 51 c).
6. Metaphorically in regard to, concerning, on account of : thus הִתְאַבֵּל to mourn concerning 1 Samuel 15:35; הִנָּחֵם to repent as regards 2 Samuel 24:16; דָּרַשׁ to inquire 1 Kings 14:5; הִתְפַּלֵּל to pray with regard to 1 Samuel 1:27; 2 Kings 19:20; צָעַק to cry 2 Kings 8:3 (2 Kings 8:5 על); נֶעֳצַב be pained 1 Samuel 20:34; נִחַם to comfort 2 Samuel 10:2; more generally 1 Kings 16:13; 1 Kings 21:22; אֶל־נֶפֶשׁ on account of, for the sake of, one's life 1 Kings 19:3; 2 Kings 7:7 (Genesis 19:17 על). (עַל is more common in this sense.) And specially with verbs of saying, narrating, telling, etc. with regard to, as אָמַר Genesis 20:2; Isaiah 29:22; Isaiah 37:21, 33 +; דִּבֶּר 2 Samuel 7:19; Jeremiah 40:16b; סִפֵּר Psalm 2:7; Psalm 69:27; צִוָּה Isaiah 23:11; שָׁמַע Ezekiel 19:4; הַשְּׁמוּעָה אֶל the report regarding... 1 Samuel 4:19. (Not frequently, ext. in the case of אָמַר.)
7. Of rule or standard, according to (rare): ⬩⬩⬩אֶל־פִּי according to the command of, Joshua 15:13; Joshua 17:4; Joshua 21:3 (generally עַל־פִּי); אֶל־נָבוֺן according to what is fixed = of a certainty † 1 Samuel 23:23; 1 Samuel 26:4 (see Dr): perhaps Psalm 5:1; Psalm 80:1 (Psalm 45:1 עַל).
8. Expressing presence at a spot, against; at, by, not merely after verbs expressing or implying motion (compare 1, Genesis 24:11), as Joshua 11:5 and they came and encamped together אֶל־מֵי מֵרוֺם at the waters of Merom, 1 Samuel 5:4 cut off (and fallen) on to the threshold, 2 Samuel 2:23 and elsewhere and smote him אֶל־הַחֹמֶשׁ in or on the belly, Deuteronomy 33:28; Exodus 29:12; Leviticus 4:7; but also in other cases, as Joshua 5:3 and he circumcised the Israelites אֶל against, at the hill of the foreskins, Joshua 22:11 have built an altar אֶל גְּלִילוֺת הַיַּרְדֵּן by the districts of Jordan, Judges 12:6; 2 Samuel 3:32, 14:30 & 2 Samuel 18:4 אֶל־יַד at the side of (elsewhere לְיַד, עַל יַד), 1 Kings 13:20 as they were sitting אֶל־הַשֻּׁלְחָן at the table, 2 Kings 11:14 אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ by the king, Jeremiah 41:12 and found him by the great waters, etc., Jeremiah 46:10 פְּרָת אֶל־נְהַר by the Euphrates, Ezekiel 3:15; Ezekiel 11:11; Ezekiel 17:8; Ezekiel 31:7; Ezekiel 40:18; Ezekiel 43:3; Ezekiel 47:7; Ezekiel 48:12.
9. Prefixed to other preps. it combines with them the idea of motion or direction to: thus אֶל־אַחֲרֵי 2 Samuel 5:23; 2 Kings 9:18, 19 סֹב אֶל־אַחֲרַי turn to behind me, Zechariah 6:5 (where אֶל is pleonastic, probably due to clerical error; note יצא אל before & after); אֶל־בֵּין in between Ezekiel 31:10, 14; אֵל־בֵּינוֺת similarly Ezekiel 10:2; אֶל־מִבֵּית לְ׳ to (the part) within (see below בַּיִת), in within Leviticus 16:15; 2 Kings 11:15 || have her forth in within the ranks; אֶל־מוּל see מוּל; אֶל־מִנֶּגֶב לְ׳ unto the south of Joshua 15:3; אֶל־מִחוּץ לְ׳ to the outside of Leviticus 4:12, 21 +; אֶל־נֹכַח to the front of Numbers 19:4; אֶל־תַּחַת Judges 6:19; 1 Kings 8:6 and elsewhere (see below תַּחַת).
Note 1. — In Genesis 20:13 אֶל־כָּל־הַמָּקוֺם אֲשֶׁר נָבוֺא שָׁמָּה אִמְרִי־לִי וג׳; Numbers 33:54 אֶל־אֲשֶׁר וג׳; Proverbs 17:8 (compare Deuteronomy 16:6); — אֶל appears to be used by a species of attraction; the idea of motion involved in the relative clause influencing illogically the beginning of the sentence and causing אֶל to be used instead of בְּ. In Ezekiel 31:14 אֵלֵיהֶם, as pointed, can only be from אַיִל III or IV (which see); if the word be taken as the pronoun with suffix (Hi Ke), אֲלֵיהֶם must be read.
Note 2. — There is a tendency in Hebrew, especially manifest in Samuel Kings Jeremiah Ezekiel, to use אֶל in the sense of עַל; sometimes אֶל being used exceptionally in a phrase or construction which regularly, and in accusative with analogy, has עַל; sometimes, the two prepositions interchanging, apparently without discrimination, in the same or parallel sentences. Thus
(a) Joshua 5:14 אֶל־פָּנָיו וַיִּפֹּל; 1 Samuel 13:13 אֶת־מַמְלַכְתְּךָ אֶל־יִשְׂרָאֵל הֵקִים י׳; 1 Samuel 14:34 (see below 5); 1 Samuel 17:3 עֹמְדִים אֶל־הָהָר (contractee עַל Deuteronomy 11:29); Deuteronomy 19:16; 2 Samuel 6:3; 2 Samuel 20:23 (contracted 2 Samuel 8:16) 1 Kings 13:29; 1 Kings 18:46 (contracted 2 Kings 3:15 על) Jeremiah 35:15; Ezekiel 7:18.
(b) Judges 6:37 and upon (עַל) all the earth let there be dryness, Judges 6:39 let there be dryness on (אֶל) the fleece; 1 Samuel 14:10 come up עָלֵינוּ, 1 Samuel 14:12 come up אֵלֵינוּ; 1 Samuel 16:23; 1 Samuel 16:16; 1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Samuel 18:10 צָלַח אֶל, 1 Samuel 10:6 and elsewhere צָלַח עַל; 1 Samuel 25:17 evil is determined אֶל־אֲדֹנֵינוּ וְעַל כָּל־בֵּיתוֺ; 1 Samuel 25:25; 1 Samuel 27:10; 2 Samuel 2:9 אֶלוַיַּמְלִכֵהוּ וְעַל⬩⬩⬩ וְעַל⬩⬩⬩ וְעַל⬩⬩⬩ וְאֶל⬩⬩⬩ וְאֶל⬩⬩⬩; 2 Samuel 3:29 ⬩⬩⬩יָחֻלוּ עַל ⬩⬩⬩וְאֶל 2 Kings 8:3 & 5; 2 Kings 9:6 & 3; Jeremiah 19:15; Jeremiah 25:2; Jeremiah 26:15 ye lay innocent blood עֲלֵיכֶם וְאֶל־הָעִיר הַזּאֹת; Jeremiah 27:19; Jeremiah 28:8; Jeremiah 33:14; Jeremiah 34:7; Jeremiah 36:31; Jeremiah 37:13, 14; Ezekiel 18:6, 11 & 15; Ezekiel 21:12 etc. Psalm 79:6 (Jeremiah 10:25 על twice). It is probably that this interchange, at least in many cases, is not original, but due to transcribers.
Conversely, though not with the same frequency, עַל occurs where analogy would lead us to expect אֶל, or even in juxtaposition with אֶל, as 1 Samuel 1:10 עַל הִתְפַּלֵּל to pray to (1 Samuel 1:26 אֶל); 1 Samuel 1:13; 1 Samuel 25:25 עַל ֗֗֗ אֶל; 1 Kings 20:43 וַיֵּלֶךְ עַל־בֵּיתוֺ (1 Kings 21:4 אֶל); Isaiah 22:15; Jeremiah 11:2; Jeremiah 23:35; Jeremiah 31:12. compare DrSm i. 13, 13; ii. 8, 7; 15, 4.
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Genesis

2:19; 2:22; 3:1; 3:16; 3:19; 4:7; 4:8; 6:6; 6:16; 6:18; 7:1; 8:9; 8:15; 12:15; 14:3; 14:22; 16:9; 16:11; 19:3; 19:5; 19:17; 19:27; 20:2; 20:13; 20:17; 21:14; 23:19; 24:11; 24:11; 25:9; 30:40; 31:5; 32:31; 35:4; 37:22; 39:7; 39:20; 40:11; 41:21; 42:17; 42:21; 42:28; 43:30; 43:33; 47:18; 49:29

Exodus

1:19; 9:21; 14:5; 25:20; 26:28; 28:30; 29:12

Leviticus

4:7; 4:12; 4:21; 8:8; 16:15; 18:18

Numbers

5:23; 6:26; 12:8; 19:4; 25:1; 30:15; 31:8; 32:14; 33:54

Deuteronomy

4:39; 11:29; 13:2; 16:6; 18:11; 19:16; 23:25; 24:15; 28:32; 33:28

Joshua

5:3; 5:14; 8:18; 10:6; 11:5; 13:22; 15:3; 15:13; 17:4; 21:3; 22:11

Judges

1:10; 6:19; 6:37; 6:39; 9:57; 12:6; 20:30

1 Samuel

1:10; 1:13; 1:26; 1:27; 2:34; 4:19; 5:4; 10:6; 10:22; 13:13; 14:10; 14:12; 14:32; 14:34; 14:34; 15:35; 16:13; 16:16; 16:23; 17:3; 18:10; 20:34; 22:12; 23:23; 24:8; 25:17; 25:25; 25:25; 26:4; 27:10

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:23; 3:8; 3:29; 3:32; 5:23; 6:3; 7:19; 8:16; 10:2; 14:30; 18:4; 19:20; 20:23; 24:16

1 Kings

8:6; 8:29; 8:30; 8:38; 10:7; 13:20; 13:29; 14:5; 14:10; 14:13; 16:13; 18:46; 19:3; 20:43; 21:4; 21:22

2 Kings

3:15; 4:13; 6:11; 7:7; 8:3; 8:3; 8:5; 8:5; 9:3; 9:6; 9:18; 9:19; 9:32; 11:14; 11:15; 19:20; 21:16; 24:1

1 Chronicles

9:25; 16:23

Ezra

9:11

Job

3:22; 3:22; 5:5; 5:26; 15:22; 29:19; 31:23

Psalms

2:5; 2:7; 5:1; 25:1; 27:14; 28:2; 33:18; 34:16; 40:6; 45:1; 69:27; 79:6; 80:1; 96:2

Proverbs

17:8

Isaiah

2:4; 3:8; 8:19; 11:10; 13:8; 22:15; 23:11; 29:22; 32:6; 37:21; 37:33; 51:5; 63:15; 66:17

Jeremiah

2:19; 4:3; 10:2; 10:25; 11:2; 15:1; 19:15; 21:13; 23:30; 23:31; 23:32; 23:35; 25:2; 25:26; 26:15; 27:19; 28:8; 31:12; 33:14; 34:7; 35:15; 36:16; 36:31; 37:13; 37:14; 40:16; 41:7; 41:12; 46:10; 50:31; 51:25

Lamentations

3:41; 4:17

Ezekiel

3:15; 5:8; 7:18; 7:26; 10:2; 11:11; 13:8; 13:19; 13:20; 16:26; 16:28; 16:29; 17:8; 18:6; 18:11; 18:15; 19:4; 21:8; 21:12; 26:3; 28:22; 29:3; 29:10; 30:22; 31:7; 31:10; 31:14; 31:14; 34:10; 35:3; 36:9; 36:9; 38:3; 39:1; 40:14; 40:18; 43:3; 44:7; 47:7; 48:12

Hosea

3:3; 3:5; 7:15; 9:11; 12:5

Micah

7:17

Nahum

1:9; 3:5

Haggai

2:17

Zechariah

6:5

H413

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Strong's Number H413 matches the Hebrew אֵל ('ēl),
which occurs 61 times in 48 verses in 'Neh' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6 - “please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - “O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” For I was the king’s cupbearer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4 - Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - Furthermore I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of the region beyond the River,[fn] that they must permit me to pass through till I come to Judah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - “and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple,[fn] for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - Then I went to the governors in the region beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11 - So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:4 - Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity!

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9 - Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11 - And our adversaries said, “They will neither know nor see anything, till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14 - And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15 - And it happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had brought their plot to nothing, that all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I said to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:20 - “Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - And at my table were one hundred and fifty Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they thought to do me harm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - But they sent me this message four times, and I answered them in the same manner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before, the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was a secret informer; and he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17 - Also in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5 - Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - Then he read from it in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate from morning until midday, before the men and women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:13 - Now on the second day the heads of the fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and Levites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to understand the words of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:4 - Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:16 - “But they and our fathers acted proudly,
Hardened their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven,
And brought them into the land
Which You had told their fathers
To go in and possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26 - “Nevertheless they were disobedient
And rebelled against You,
Cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets, who testified against them
To turn them to Yourself;
And they worked great provocations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies,
Who oppressed them;
And in the time of their trouble,
When they cried to You,
You heard from heaven;
And according to Your abundant mercies
You gave them deliverers who saved them
From the hand of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:29 - And testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’[fn]
And they shrugged their shoulders,
Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:34 - Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38 - And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms of the storehouse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:25 - And as for the villages with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kirjath Arba and its villages, Dibon and its villages, Jekabzeel and its villages;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Then after certain days I obtained leave from the king,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.
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