Nehemiah 1:11

Nehemiah asks God to hear all who delight to fear His name and to grant him success and mercy before "this man"—the king. The closing note that he was the king's cupbearer reveals how God positioned him to act.

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• Neh 1:6Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
• Neh 2:8and 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 citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
• Neh 2:1In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
• Heb 13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
• Ezra 7:6this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
• Ps 130:2Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
• Ps 86:6Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
• Gen 40:21He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
• Ezra 1:1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
• Ezra 7:27–28Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
• Gen 40:23Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
• Gen 32:11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
• Gen 40:9–13The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
• Gen 41:9Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
• Gen 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
• Prov 1:29because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
• Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
• Gen 40:2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

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