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Nehemiah 2:3 (Listen)

I said to the king, a“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, bwhen the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Daniel 2:4 (Listen)

Then kthe Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic,1 m“O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

Footnotes

[1] 2:4 The text from this point to the end of chapter 7 is in Aramaic

Daniel 3:9 (Listen)

They declared1 to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!

Footnotes

[1] 3:9 Aramaic answered and said; also verses 24, 26

Daniel 5:10 (Listen)

10 The queen,1 because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, z“O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you aor your color change.

Footnotes

[1] 5:10 Or queen mother; twice in this verse

Daniel 6:6 (Listen)

Then these shigh officials and rsatraps came by agreement1 to the king and said to him, “O yKing Darius, live forever!

Footnotes

[1] 6:6 Or came thronging; also verses 11, 15

Daniel 6:21 (Listen)

21 Then Daniel said to the king, x“O king, live forever!