Nehemiah 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. ”

Nehemiah 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I prayed to the God of heaven - Mentally and momentarily, before answering the king.
Nehemiah 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed (e) to the God of heaven. (e) I desired God in my heart to prosper my enterprise.
Nehemiah 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 1:11 b - Nehemiah 2:8 . Nehemiah Receives Permission from Artaxerxes to Go to Jerusalem and Rebuild the City Walls. Nehemiah 1:1 . the twentieth year of Artaxerxes: 444 B.C. I had no...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. So I prayed to the God of heaven - Before he dared to prefer his request to the king, he made his prayer...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah's Resolve to rebuild Jerusalem This chapter gives an account of Nehemiah's request for leave to rebuild Jerusalem, his arrival there, and his survey of the ruined walls, which it was deci...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

II. (1-8) Nehemiah’s appeal to the king.
Nehemiah 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PRAYER ANSWERED Nehemiah 2:1-8 NEHEMIAH'S prayer had commenced on celestial heights of meditation among thoughts of Divine grace and glory, and when it had stooped to earth it had swept ove...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Patriot's Self-Sacrifice Nehemiah 2:1-11 The seventh month answers to our March or April, so that four months had passed since Nehemiah had set himself to special prayer. Between the king's s...
Nehemiah 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah's sadness could not wholly be hidden. He had not been habitually a sad man, as he himself declares; but the sorrow of his nation manifested itself as he stood before the king. It has been s...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) 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, (3) And said unto the king, Let the k...
Nehemiah 2:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

EJACULATORY PRAYER ‘So I prayed to the God of heaven.’ Nehemiah 2:4 Our thoughts are now upon that moment of ejaculatory prayer, and its lesson for our own faith and our own prayers. What h...
Nehemiah 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then the king said unto me, for what dost thou make request ?.... The king supposed that there was a meaning in those looks and words of his, that he had a favour to ask of him, and therefore encour...
Nehemiah 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. Ver. 4. Then the king said unto me ] Some think that Nehemiah looked thus sad before the king on purp...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then the king said, For what dost thou make request? Something thou wouldest have, what is it? The king had an affection for him, and was not pleased to see him dejected, and thus gave him encourag...
Nehemiah 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

This exercise of Nehemiah continued for four months following the information he received, and finally came to a head in the month Nisan (corresponding to March or April), when Nehemiah was serving w...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah's Request to the King. B. C. 445. 1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I prayed to the God of heaven, to direct my thoughts and words, and to incline the king's heart to grant my request.
Nehemiah 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah's Successful Approach To The King And His Subsequent Commission ( Nehemiah 2:1-8 ). Having reached his decision before God Nehemiah now carried it out into practise. He came into the king...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 2:1 . Nisan ] Called Abib in Exodus 13:4 , first month in Hebrew national year. Corresponds to parts of our March and April. Nehemiah 2:3 . Let the king live for...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 God gives us every day, and all day long, something to choose about, and the reason is because He wants to try us, to see whether we do right, to exercise our minds and see whether we...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nehemiah 2:1 . And it came to pass in the month Nisan, Three or four months after he began to pray. Nehemiah 2:1 . In the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 2:1 . Nisan. See the chronology, Exodus 12 . Artaxerxes was well disposed towards the Jews. He had sent Ezra to Jerusalem in the seventh year of his reign; he now sends Nehemiah in the t...
Nehemiah 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

And it came to pass in the month Nizan. Divine interposition I. Was opportune. 1. That God’s plans are worked out with the utmost precision. 2. That God often interferes on His people’s b...
Nehemiah 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Nehemiah 2:1 In the month Nisan . The fourth month after Chisleu, corresponding nearly to our April. How it came about that Nehemiah did not put the king's favour to the proof u...
Nehemiah 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah's Request Granted by the King
Nehemiah 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 3:5 ; 2 Samuel 15:31 ; Esther 5:3 ; Esther 5:6 ; Esther 7:2 ; Mark 10:51 ; Nehemiah 1:11 ; Nehemiah 1:4 ; Philippians 4:6 ; Proverbs 3:6
Nehemiah 2:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Rebuilding the Wall Nehemiah 2:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we study the Book of Nehemiah we learn the truth of that old saying, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." This was...
Nehemiah 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Let, &c. — My sadness comes not from any disaffection to the king, for whom my hearty prayers are that he may live for ever; but from another cause. Sepulchres — Which by all nations are esteem...

Nehemiah 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nehemiah 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nehemiah 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 2:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Nehemiah 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes