Nehemiah 2:6-8

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶ And the king said to me (with the queen sitting by him), “How long shall your journey be? And when will you come back?” So, it pleased the king, and he sent me. And I gave him a time.

⁷ Afterward, I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let them give me letters to the captains beyond the River, so that they may allow me passage until I come into Judah,

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.