~ before him and I ~ 16_NEH_02_01  And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him, and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence. #, 19_PSA_018_023  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. # , 23_ISA_45_01  Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; #,