[h=1]Nehemiah 2:1-3 King James Version (KJV)[/h] 2 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
[SUP]3 [/SUP]
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
[h=1]Nehemiah 2:1-3 Living Bible (TLB)[/h]
2 [SUP]1-2 [/SUP]One day in April, four months later, as I was serving the king his wine he asked me, “Why so sad? You aren’t sick, are you? You look like a man with deep troubles.” (For until then I had always been cheerful when I was with him.) I was badly frightened, [SUP]3 [/SUP]but I replied, “Sir, why shouldn’t I be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been burned down.”
Living Bible (TLB) The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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1 This is April. This was Nehemiah’s job to bring it to him as cup bearer. Nehemiah even if he was sad went through work in front of the king without letting him know if we are sad we can go thru work but it is a matter of time that people may know something is work.
2 The king notices his sadness and he is frighten because he was not to bring the sadness to the king, people being down can often times bring other people down as well.
3 So Nehemiah is sad because of his home being bad but is happy with his king.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
[SUP]3 [/SUP]
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
[h=1]Nehemiah 2:1-3 Living Bible (TLB)[/h]
2 [SUP]1-2 [/SUP]One day in April, four months later, as I was serving the king his wine he asked me, “Why so sad? You aren’t sick, are you? You look like a man with deep troubles.” (For until then I had always been cheerful when I was with him.) I was badly frightened, [SUP]3 [/SUP]but I replied, “Sir, why shouldn’t I be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been burned down.”
Living Bible (TLB) The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
These are my thoughts, please share yours.
1 This is April. This was Nehemiah’s job to bring it to him as cup bearer. Nehemiah even if he was sad went through work in front of the king without letting him know if we are sad we can go thru work but it is a matter of time that people may know something is work.
2 The king notices his sadness and he is frighten because he was not to bring the sadness to the king, people being down can often times bring other people down as well.
3 So Nehemiah is sad because of his home being bad but is happy with his king.