H9005–/ל–l

The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.

לִ֨י (לִ֨) l “to”

I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?

לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (לַ) la. “to the”לְעוֹלָ֣ם (לְ) le. “for”

Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

לִי֙ (לִ) l “to”

I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.

לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (לַ) la. “to the”לְפָנֶ֑יךָ (לְ) le. “<to>”

The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

לִ֨י (לִ֨) l “to”לִפְנֵֽי־ (לִ) li “<to>”ל֖וֹ (ל֖) l “to”

Moreover I said to the king, If it please 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;

לַמֶּלֶךְ֒ (לַ) la. “to the”לִ֔י (לִ֔) L “to”

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 castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.

לַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (לַ) la. “[belongs] to the”לִ֣י (לִ֣) l “to <the>”לְ֠קָרוֹת (לְ֠) Le. “to”לַבַּ֙יִת֙ (לַ) la. “[belongs] to the”וּלְחוֹמַ֣ת (לְ) le. “for”וְלַבַּ֖יִת (לַ) la. “for the”לִ֣י (לִ֣) l “to”

Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

לָהֶ֔ם (לָ) la. “to”

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

לָהֶ֖ם (לָ) la. “to”לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ (לְ) le. “to”לִבְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “for”

I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

לְאָדָ֔ם (לְ) le. “to”לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (לַ) la. “to”לִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (לִ) li. “for”

Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

לַבְּהֵמָ֖ה (לַ) la. “for the”לַעֲבֹ֥ר (לַ) la. “to”

The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

וְלַיְּהוּדִ֨ים (לַ) lai. “to the”וְלַכֹּהֲנִ֜ים (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַחֹרִ֣ים (לַ) la. “to the”וְלַסְּגָנִ֗ים (לַ) la. “to the”וּלְיֶ֙תֶר֙ (לְ) le. “to”

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good [supplied: work].

לָהֶ֜ם (לָ) la. “to”לִ֑י (לִ֑) L “to”לַטּוֹבָֽה׃ (לַ) la. “for <the>”

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

לָ֔נוּ (לָ֔) La. “<to>”

Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

לָהֶם֙ (לָ) la. “to”לָ֔נוּ (לָ֔) La. “to”וְלָכֶ֗ם (לָ) la. “[belongs] to”

Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, [supplied: that appertained] to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

לְכִסֵּ֕א (לְ) le. “to”

The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

לְגַן־ (לְ) le. “of”

After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for his district.

לְפִלְכּֽוֹ׃ (לְ) le. “for”

Palal the son of Uzai [supplied: repaired] over against the turning [supplied: of the wall], and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh [supplied: repaired].

לַחֲצַ֣ר (לַ) la. “[belongs] to”

(Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

לַמִּזְרָ֔ח (לַ) la. “to the”

Above the horse gate repaired the priests, everyone over against his own house.

לְנֶ֥גֶד (לְ) le. “to”

Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

לְשַׁ֣עַר (לְ) le. “and”

But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “to”

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לָהֶ֤ם (לָ) la. “for”

Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

לְבִזָּ֖ה (לְ) le. “to”