Nehemiah 2:8-10

Revised Geneva Translation

⁸ and letters to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s park, so that he may give me timber to build the gates of the palace which pertained to the house and for the walls of the city and for the house into which I shall enter.” And the king gave to me according to the good Hand of my God upon me.

⁹ Then I came to the captains beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. And the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

¹⁰ But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah (an Ammonite servant) heard it. And it sorely grieved them that there had come a man who sought the wealth of the children of Israel.