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Why would Nehemiah ask God to remember? Does God forget things?

Nehemiah 1:8

Nehemiah used the word remember often in prayer (1:8; 5:19; 6:14; 13:14, 22, 29, 31). In his opening prayer, Nehemiah asked God to remember, not because he thought God might forget, but as a way of saying, "I'm remembering what You said in Your Word, Lord, and I'm depending on Your faithfulness." In all his other prayers, Nehemiah asked God to remember people, including himself. When he prayed "remember Tobiah and Sanballat" (6:14) or "remember them" (13:29), he was entrusting others into God's hands for just judgment rather than trying to exact vengeance himself (Deut. 32:35; Rom. 12:19; Heb. 10:30). But Nehemiah most often prayed, "Remember me, my God" (5:19, 13:14, 22, 31).