The king(Artaxerxes) said to me(Nehemiah),
"Why is your face sad,
seeing you are not sick?
This is nothing but sadness of the heart."
I said to the king,
"Let the king live forever!
Why should not my face be sad,
when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"
Then the king said to me,
"What are you requesting?"
So I prayed to the God of heaven.
And I said to the king,
"If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it."
And I said to the king,
"If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah, and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy."
And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.
Nehemiah 2:2-5, 7-8
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