Nehemiah 2:8-10

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁸ also a letter to Asaph, superintendent of the king’s forest, so that he will give me lumber to lay beams for the gates of the citadel of the temple, for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king gave them to me, because the good hand of my God was upon me.

⁹ Then I came to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, and I gave them the king’s letters. The king had sent army officers and cavalry with me.

¹⁰ When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official^[a] heard about this, they were very upset that a man had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.