H4428G–מֶ֫לֶךְ–me.lekh

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

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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 (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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.

הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ (מֶּ֜לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”

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 (מֶּלֶךְ֒) me.leKh “king”הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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 (מֶּ֗לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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.

הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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 [ergänzt: work].

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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?

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

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.

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

Palal the son of Uzai [ergänzt: repaired] over against the turning [ergänzt: 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 [ergänzt: repaired].

הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [ergänzt: on] our fields and our vineyards.

הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [ergänzt: that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause you are building the wall: and you would be their king, according to these words.

לְמֶ֔לֶךְ (מֶ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

You have also appointed prophets to preach of you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

מֶ֚לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city;

מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ (מַלְכֵי) mal.khei. “kings”

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

לִמְלָכֵ֨ינוּ (מְלָכֵ֨י) m.la.Khei. “kings”מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.

מְלָכֵ֤ינוּ (מְלָכֵ֤י) me.la.Khei. “kings”

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

לַמְּלָכִ֛ים (מְּלָכִ֛ים) me.la.Khim “kings”

For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

But in all this [ergänzt: time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,

מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (מֶּֽלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶ֜לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”מֶ֖לֶךְ Me.lekh “king”

that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”