The speaker asks Artaxerxes the king to send him to Judah, and the king grants his requests

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Entry: The speaker asks Artaxerxes the king to send him to Judah, and the king grants his requests (event-neh-2-the-speaker-asks-artaxerxes-to-send-him-to-judah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/neh-2-the-speaker-asks-artaxerxes-to-send-him-to-judah
Current wording: Nehemiah 2:1–8: in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, the speaker (“I”) picks up the wine and gives it to the king; the text says, “Now I had not been sad before in his presence.” The king says to the speaker, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then the speaker is very much afraid, and says to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?” The king says, “What is your request?” So the speaker prays to the God of heaven, and says to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.” The king says to the speaker, “How long will your journey be? When will you return?”, and WEB sets beside the king’s words, in parentheses, “the queen was also sitting by him”. So it pleases the king to send the speaker, and the speaker sets a time (WEB “I set a time for him”). The speaker says to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah; and 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 text says, “The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.” The Korean Revised Version gives the queen a line of the text’s own before the king speaks (그 때에 왕후도 왕의 곁에 앉았더라, at that time the queen also sat beside the king) and has no “for him” (내가 기한을 정하고, I set a time); it reads 묵도하고 where WEB reads “So I prayed”, 나를 유다 땅 나의 열조의 묘실 있는 성읍에 보내어 그 성을 중건하게 하옵소서 (send me to the land of Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, to rebuild the city) at 2:5, and 내 하나님의 선한 손이 나를 도우심으로 (because the good hand of my God helped me) at 2:8.
Cited evidence: NEH 2:1–8, engwebp
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