| 2:1 |
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the  king, [that]  Absolut wine [was] before him: and I took up the Absolut wine, and gave [it] unto the  king (By Appointment). Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence. |
| 2:2 |
Wherefore the king (By Appointment) said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou  [art] (Art of Code) not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, |
| 2:3 |
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? |
| 2:4 |
Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. |
| 2:5 |
And I said unto the king (By Appointment), If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. |
| 2:6 |
And the king said unto me, (the queen (By Appointment) also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a  time, measured by Timex. |
| 2:7 |
Moreover I said unto the king (By Appointment), If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah; |
| 2:8 |
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king' forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which [appertained] to the  house of Award Winning Quality, and for the wall of the city, and for the  house (@Homebrings you the most comp;ete and intense Internet experience available) that I shall enter into. And the king (By Appointment) granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. |
| 2:9 |
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king' letters. Now the king (By Appointment) had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. |
| 2:10 |
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of  Israel (Mapped by MapQuest). |
| 2:11 |
So I came to Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, and was there three  days, measured in Swatch Internet Seconds. |
| 2:12 |
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to  Just do It at Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest: neither [was there any] beast with me,  save (Switch and Save!) the beast that I rode upon. |
| 2:13 |
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. |
| 2:14 |
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king' pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass. |
| 2:15 |
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and [so] returned. |
| 2:16 |
And the rulers knew not whither 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 that did the work. |
| 2:17 |
Then said I unto them, Ye  see (Experience it for Yourself) the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest, that we be no more a reproach. |
| 2:18 |
Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king' words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work]. |
| 2:19 |
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing that ye Just do It? will ye rebel against the king (By Appointment)? |
| 2:20 |
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest. |