Nehemiah 2:5 And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah… Men love to think of the honour of their fathers' titles, or of the grandeur of their fathers' habitations. It is wise in us to muse sometimes on the place of our fathers' sepulchres. The graves where they lie are mementoes whither we must follow them, and from their tomb they call us to prepare for entering the. narrow house appointed, for all living. (W. Ritchie.) Parallel Verses KJV: And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. |
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