Nehemiah 2:7
New Catholic Bible
7 Then I said to the king: “If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of West-of-Euphrates with orders to grant me safe passage until I arrive in Judah.
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Nehemiah 2:8
New Catholic Bible
8 I also request that you give me a letter for Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, directing that he give me timber for the gates of the citadel adjoining the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the residence I will occupy.” The king granted what I requested, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me.
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Nehemiah 2:10-12
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10 However, when Sanballat[a] the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.
11 Nehemiah Inspects the Wall.[b]When I arrived in Jerusalem, I rested there for three days. 12 Then I set out by night with just a few other men. I revealed to no one what my God had inspired me to do for Jerusalem, and I took no animal with me other than the one I was riding.
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- Nehemiah 2:10 Sanballat: the governor of Samaria, called the “Horonite” from the city of Horonaim in the land of Moab (see Isa 15:5). Tobiah was in all probability a member of a family (the Tobiads) who in the third century B.C. would flourish in the region of the Ammonites.
- Nehemiah 2:11 Poets who experienced the disaster have preserved for us their deeply felt and horrified memory of the mass of stones and ruins that made the site of Jerusalem such a sad place (Pss 74; 79; Lam 1; 2; 5).
