Nehemiah 5:19
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New International Version (©2011)
Remember me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Remember, O my God, all that I have done for these people, and bless me for it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Remember me, O my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Remember me favorably, my God, for all that I have done for this people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Remember me with favor, my God, for everything I've done for this people."

NET Bible (©2006)
Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Remember me, my God. Consider everything that I have done for these people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

American King James Version
Think on me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

American Standard Version
Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.

Darby Bible Translation
Remember for me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

English Revised Version
Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Webster's Bible Translation
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

World English Bible
Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Young's Literal Translation
Remember for me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:14-19 Those who truly fear God, will not dare to do any thing cruel or unjust. Let all who are in public places remember that they are so placed to do good, not to enrich themselves. Nehemiah mentions it to God in prayer, not as if he had merited any favour from God, but to show that he depended upon God only, to make up to him what he had lost and laid out for his honour. Nehemiah evidently spake and acted as one that knew himself to be a sinner. He did not mean to claim a reward as of debt, but in the manner that the Lord rewards a cup of cold water given to a disciple for his sake. The fear and love of God in the heart, and true love of the brethren, will lead to every good work. These are proper evidences of justifying faith; and our reconciled God will look upon persons of this character for good, according to all they have done for his people.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - Think upon me, my God. Compare Nehemiah 13:14, 22, 31. This is no "prayer for posthumous fame" (Stanley, 'Lectures on the Jewish Church,' Third Series, p. 135), but simply an appeal to God, beseeching him to bear in mind the petitioner's good deeds, and reward them at his own good time and in his own way. As Butler observes ('Analogy,' Part I. ch. 3.), the sense of good and ill desert is inseparably connected with an expectation of reward or punishment, and so with the notion of a future life, since neither are the righteous adequately rewarded nor the wicked adequately punished in this life.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. He expected not any recompence from the people, but from the Lord; and from him not in a way of merit, but of grace and good will, who forgets not what is done for his name's sake, Hebrews 6:10.

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Nehemiah's Generosity
…17Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came to us from among the heathen that are about us. 18Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people. 19Think on me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

2 Kings 20:3 "Remember, LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.
Nehemiah 13:22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.