Nehemiah 2:6-10 And the king said to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is your journey? and when do you return?' and it is good before the king, and he sends me away, and I set to him a time.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ And the king said to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is your journey? and when do you return?' and it is good before the king, and he sends me away, and I set to him a time. ⁷ And I say to the king, `If to the king [it be] good, letters let be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they let me pass over till that I come in unto Judah. ⁸ and a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king has, that he give to me trees for beams [for] the gates of the palace that the house has, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter;' and the king gives to me, according to the good hand of my Elohim upon me. ⁹ And I come in unto the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sends with me heads of a force, and horsemen;" ¹⁰ and Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them--a great evil--that a man has come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.