Nehemiah 2:7
7 And I said to the king, “If it is good to the king, let letters be given me afor the governors of the provinces beyond the River, that they may allow me to pass through until I come to Judah,
Nehemiah 2:8
8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s aforest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of bthe fortress which is by the house of God, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go.” And the king granted them to me because cthe good hand of my God was on me.
Nehemiah 2:10-12
10 Then aSanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about it, and it was a very great evil to them that someone had come to seek the good of the sons of Israel.
Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem’s Walls
11 So I acame to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my heart to do for Jerusalem; and there was no animal with me except the animal on which I was riding.
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