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1. Nehemiah 2:1 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְלַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

   Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

2. Nehemiah 2:2 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

   so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear

3. Nehemiah 2:3 לַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

   and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

4. Nehemiah 2:4 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

   “What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

5. Nehemiah 2:5 לַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

   and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”

6. Nehemiah 2:6 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

   Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.

7. Nehemiah 2:7 לַמֶּלֶךְ֒הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

   I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.

8. Nehemiah 2:8 לַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

   And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.

9. Nehemiah 2:9 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

   Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

10. Nehemiah 2:14 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;

11. Nehemiah 2:18 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. “Let us start rebuilding,” they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.

12. Nehemiah 2:19 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

13. Nehemiah 3:15 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.

14. Nehemiah 3:25 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

    and Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh

15. Nehemiah 5:4 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

16. Nehemiah 5:14 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

17. Nehemiah 6:6 לְמֶ֔לֶךְ

    that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,

18. Nehemiah 6:7 מֶ֚לֶךְלַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ‘There is a king in Judah.’ Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.”

19. Nehemiah 7:6 מֶ֣לֶךְ

    These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

20. Nehemiah 9:22 מֶ֣לֶךְמֶֽלֶךְ־

    You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

21. Nehemiah 9:24 מַלְכֵיהֶם֙

    So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.

22. Nehemiah 9:32 לִמְלָכֵ֨ינוּמַלְכֵ֣י

    So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

23. Nehemiah 9:34 מְלָכֵ֤ינוּ

    Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

24. Nehemiah 9:37 לַמְּלָכִ֛ים

    Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

25. Nehemiah 11:23 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    For there was a command from the king concerning the singers, an ordinance regulating their daily activities.

26. Nehemiah 11:24 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, a descendant of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.

27. Nehemiah 13:6 מֶֽלֶךְ־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

    While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king

28. Nehemiah 13:26 מֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֜לֶךְמֶ֖לֶךְ

    Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

29. Esther 1:2 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.

30. Esther 1:5 הַמֶּ֡לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

    At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.

31. Esther 1:7 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

    Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.

32. Esther 1:8 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

    By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.

33. Esther 1:9 לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

    Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

34. Esther 1:10 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

    On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—

35. Esther 1:11 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

36. Esther 1:12 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

    Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.

37. Esther 1:13 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    Then the king consulted the wise men who knew the times, for it was customary for him to confer with the experts in law and justice.

38. Esther 1:14 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.

39. Esther 1:15 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    “According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?”

40. Esther 1:16 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

    And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.

41. Esther 1:17 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’

42. Esther 1:18 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.

43. Esther 1:19 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.

44. Esther 1:20 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

    The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”

45. Esther 1:21 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan had advised.

46. Esther 1:22 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.

47. Esther 2:1 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.

48. Esther 2:2 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְלַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

    Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

49. Esther 2:3 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

50. Esther 2:4 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.