H4428G–מֶ֫לֶךְ–me.lekh

And the king saith to me, `For what art thou seeking?' and I pray unto the God of the heavens,

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

and say to the king, `If to the king `it be' good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.'

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

And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?' and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.

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

And I say to the king, `If to the king `it be' good, letters let be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over till that I come in unto Judah:

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

and a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king hath, that he give to me trees for beams `for' the gates of the palace that the house hath, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter;' and the king giveth to me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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

And I come in unto the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sendeth with me heads of a force, and horsemen;

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

And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good upon me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, `Let us rise, and we have built;' and they strengthen their hands for good.

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

Palal son of Uzai, from over-against the angle, and the tower that is going out from the upper house of the king that `is' at the court of the prison; after him Pedaiah son of Parosh.

הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”

And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards;

הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

Also, from the day that he appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes the king -- twelve years -- I, and my brethren, the bread of the governor have not eaten:

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

it is written in it, `Among the nations it hath been heard, and Gashmu is saying: Thou and the Jews are thinking to rebel, therefore thou art building the wall, and thou hast been to them for a king -- according to these words!

לְמֶ֔לֶךְ (מֶ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

And also, prophets thou hast appointed to call for thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king `is' in Judah, and now it is heard by the king according to these words; and now come, and we take counsel together.'

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

These `are' sons of the province, those coming up of the captives of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed -- and they turn back to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his city --

מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

`And Thou givest to them kingdoms, and peoples, and dost apportion them to the corner, and they possess the land of Sihon, and 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”

`And the sons come in, and possess the land, and Thou humblest before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and givest them into their hand, and their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure.

מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ (מַלְכֵי) mal.khei. “kings”

`And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

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

and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

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

and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.

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

for the command of the king `is' upon them, and support `is' for the singers, a matter of a day in its day.

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

And Pethahiah son of Meshezabeel, of the sons of Zerah, son of Judah, `is' by the hand of the king, for every matter of the people.

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon did I come unto the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king,

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

`By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.

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

in those days, at the sitting of the king Ahasuerus on the throne of his kingdom, that `is' in Shushan the palace,

הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”