Cross references
Nehemiah 2:5
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.”
Nehemiah 2:5 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ruth 2:13 (3 votes) and 2 Samuel 14:22 (3 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 30 to Daniel 9.
Which verses does Nehemiah 2:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ruth 2:133 votes
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
- 2 Samuel 14:223 votes
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
- Ezra 5:172 votes
Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.
- Esther 5:82 votes
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
- Esther 7:32 votes
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
- Esther 8:52 votes
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- Proverbs 3:42 votes
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
- Esther 1:191 vote
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the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
Which verses point to Nehemiah 2:5?
The 10 strongest of 15.