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Nehemiah's Appeal and Commission

Nehemiah 2:1-10

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Chapter 2
1 It was in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes. Wine was before him, and I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been evil in his sight. 2 The king said to me, "Why is your face sad when you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart." And I was very much afraid. 3 And I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad because the city, the house of the burial sites of my fathers, is devastated and its gates have been eaten by fire?" 4 He said to me, "What are you seeking?" and I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 I said to the king, "If it is good to the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, and I will rebuild it." 6 The king said to me, with the queen sitting beside him, "How long will your journey be, and when will you return?" It was good before the king, and he sent me, and I gave him a time. 7 And I said to the king, "If it is good to the king, let letters be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah." 8 And a letter to Asaph keeper of the pardes which to the king which he will give to me trees to beam the gates of the citadel which to house and to wall of the city and to house which I will come to it and the king gave to me according to hand of God the good upon me. 9 I came to the governors beyond the River, gave them the king's letters, and the king had sent army captains and horsemen with me. 10 And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite heard, and it was evil to them a great evil that a man had come to seek good for the sons of Israel.