Nehemiah:2:1-10
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And it happened in the month Nisan ,
in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king ,
that wine was before him .
And I took the wine and gave to the king .
And I had never been sad to his face .
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And the king said to me ,
Why is your face sad ,
since you are not sick ?
This is nothing but sorrow of heart .
Then I was very much afraid .
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And I said to the king ,
let the king live forever .
Why should not my face be sad when the place of my fathers '
tombs ,
the City ,
lies waste and its gates are burned with fire ?
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Then the king said to me ,
For what do you ask ?
So I prayed to the God of Heaven ,
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and I said to the king ,
If it please the king ,
and if your servant has found favor in your sight ,
that you would send me to Judah to the city of my fathers '
tombs ,
so that I might build it .
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And the king said to me ,
the queen also sitting beside him ,
For how long shall your journey be ?
And when will you return ?
So it pleased the king ,
and he sent me ;
and I set him a time .
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An I said to the king ,
If it is good to the king ,
let letters be given me to the governors Beyond the River ,
so that they may let me go through until I come to Judah ;
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also a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king '
s forest ,
so that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which is for the house ,
and for the city wall ,
and for the house into which I shall enter .
And the king granted it to me ,
according to the good hand of my God on me .
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Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River ,
and gave them the king '
s letters .
And the king had sent army commanders and horsemen with me .
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And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite ,
heard .
And it grieved them greatly that a man had come to seek the good of the sons of Israel .
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