⁸ and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s ^(A)forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of ^(B)the citadel which is by the ^[a]temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house to which I will go.” And the king granted them to me because ^(C)the good hand of my God was on me.

¹⁸ And I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king’s words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, “Let’s arise and build.” ^(A)So they put their hands to the good work.