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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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TWOT Reference: 91

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 Box Neh 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:6 - listen to my prayer! Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel. I confess that we have sinned against you. Yes, even my own family and I have sinned!

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:9 - But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.[fn] Put it into his heart to be kind to me.” In those days I was the king’s cup-bearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:4 - The king asked, “Well, how can I help you?”
With a prayer to the God of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - I replied, “If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - I also said to the king, “If it please the king, let me have letters addressed to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River,[fn] instructing them to let me travel safely through their territories on my way to Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king’s forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - When I came to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River, I delivered the king’s letters to them. The king, I should add, had sent along army officers and horsemen[fn] to protect me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11 - So I arrived in Jerusalem. Three days later,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - I slipped out during the night, taking only a few others with me. I had not told anyone about the plans God had put in my heart for Jerusalem. We took no pack animals with us except the donkey I was riding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - After dark I went out through the Valley Gate, past the Jackal’s Well,[fn] and over to the Dung Gate to inspect the broken walls and burned gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I went to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but my donkey couldn’t get through the rubble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - But now I said to them, “You know very well what trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire. Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and end this disgrace!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:4 - Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9 - But we prayed to our God and guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11 - Meanwhile, our enemies were saying, “Before they know what’s happening, we will swoop down on them and kill them and end their work.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14 - Then as I looked over the situation, I called together the nobles and the rest of the people and said to them, “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great and glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15 - When our enemies heard that we knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them, we all returned to our work on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I explained to the nobles and officials and all the people, “The work is very spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:20 - When you hear the blast of the trumpet, rush to wherever it is sounding. Then our God will fight for us!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - About this time some of the men and their wives raised a cry of protest against their fellow Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - I asked for nothing, even though I regularly fed 150 Jewish officials at my table, besides all the visitors from other lands!

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - So Sanballat and Geshem sent a message asking me to meet them at one of the villages[fn] in the plain of Ono.
But I realized they were plotting to harm me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - so I replied by sending this message to them: “I am engaged in a great work, so I can’t come. Why should I stop working to come and meet with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - Four times they sent the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - The fifth time, Sanballat’s servant came with an open letter in his hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - I replied, “There is no truth in any part of your story. You are making up the whole thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - Later I went to visit Shemaiah son of Delaiah and grandson of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home. He said, “Let us meet together inside the Temple of God and bolt the doors shut. Your enemies are coming to kill you tonight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:11 - But I replied, “Should someone in my position run from danger? Should someone in my position enter the Temple to save his life? No, I won’t do it!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:17 - During those fifty-two days, many letters went back and forth between Tobiah and the nobles of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5 - So my God gave me the idea to call together all the nobles and leaders of the city, along with the ordinary citizens, for registration. I had found the genealogical record of those who had first returned to Judah. This is what was written there:

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - [fn]all the people assembled with a unified purpose at the square just inside the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had given for Israel to obey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He faced the square just inside the Water Gate from early morning until noon and read aloud to everyone who could understand. All the people listened closely to the Book of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:13 - On October 9[fn] the family leaders of all the people, together with the priests and Levites, met with Ezra the scribe to go over the Law in greater detail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:4 - The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani—stood on the stairway of the Levites and cried out to the LORD their God with loud voices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:16 - “But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26 - “But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They turned their backs on your Law, they killed your prophets who warned them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:27 - So you handed them over to their enemies, who made them suffer. But in their time of trouble they cried to you, and you heard them from heaven. In your great mercy, you sent them liberators who rescued them from their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:29 - “You warned them to return to your Law, but they became proud and obstinate and disobeyed your commands. They did not follow your regulations, by which people will find life if only they obey. They stubbornly turned their backs on you and refused to listen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:34 - Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your Law or listen to the warnings in your commands and laws.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - Then the rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the pagan people of the land in order to obey the Law of God, together with their wives, sons, daughters, and all who were old enough to understand—

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - We will store the produce in the storerooms of the Temple of our God. We will bring the best of our flour and other grain offerings, the best of our fruit, and the best of our new wine and olive oil. And we promise to bring to the Levites a tenth of everything our land produces, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:38 - “A priest—a descendant of Aaron—will be with the Levites as they receive these tithes. And a tenth of all that is collected as tithes will be delivered by the Levites to the Temple of our God and placed in the storerooms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - The people and the Levites must bring these offerings of grain, new wine, and olive oil to the storerooms and place them in the sacred containers near the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers. “We promise together not to neglect the Temple of our God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:25 - As for the surrounding villages with their open fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba with its settlements, Dibon with its settlements, and Jekabzeel with its villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - I was not in Jerusalem at that time, for I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign,[fn] though I later asked his permission to return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - But I spoke sharply to them and said, “What are you doing out here, camping around the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you!” And that was the last time they came on the Sabbath.
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