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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

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6 - let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:9 - but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4 - Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” 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, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until 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 may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11 - So I went 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. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by 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 that was 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 trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:4 - Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9 - And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11 - And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15 - When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:20 - In the place where 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 - Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me 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 have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live?[fn] I will not go in.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17 - Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters 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 assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the 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 - On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:4 - On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried 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 presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26 - “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:29 - And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:34 - Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - “The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38 - And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. 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 people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.
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