''And the King (Artaxerxes) said to me, ''why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing else but sadness of the heart''. Who was the king a...

''And the King (Artaxerxes) said to me, ''why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing else but sadness of the heart''. Who was the king addressing

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The king was addressing Nehemiah. In the Bible, Nehemiah was a cupbearer to the King Artaxerxes of Persia. The king noticed that Nehemiah was sad and asked him why. Nehemiah explained that he was sad because of the condition of the city of Jerusalem and its people.