beforetime sad in # 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. ## 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.