Nehemiah 2:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent officers of the army and cavalry with me. ¹⁰ When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.

Nehemiah’s Inspection of the Walls

¹¹ So I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days.