~ was before him ~ 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_012  At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire. # ,