Nehemiah 2:6-10 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

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6 H4428 And the king H559 said H7694 unto me, (the queen H3427 also sitting H681 by him,) H4109 For how long shall your journey H7725 be? and when will you return? H3190 So it pleased H4428 the king H7971 to send H5414 me; and I set H2165 him a time.

7 H559 Moreover I said H4428 unto the king, H2895 If it please H4428 the king, H107 let letters H5414 be given H6346 me to the governors H5676 beyond H5104 the river, H5674 that they may convey me over H935 until I come H3063 into Judah;

8 H107 And a letter H623 unto Asaph H8104 the keeper H4428 of the king's H6508 forest, H5414 that he may give H6086 me timber H7136 to make beams H8179 for the gates H1002 of the palace H1004 which appertained to the house, H2346 and for the wall H5892 of the city, H1004 and for the house H935 that I shall enter into. H4428 And the king H5414 granted H2896 me, according to the good H3027 hand H430 of my God upon me.

9 H935 Then I came H6346 to the governors H5676 beyond H5104 the river, H5414 and gave H4428 them the king's H107 letters. H4428 Now the king H7971 had sent H8269 captains H2428 of the army H6571 and horsemen with me.

10 H5571 When Sanballat H2772 the Horonite, H2900 and Tobiah H5650 the servant, H5984 the Ammonite, H8085 heard H3415 of it, it grieved H7451 them exceedingly H935 that there was come H120 a man H1245 to seek H2896 the welfare H1121 of the sons H3478 of Israel.