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2 It was in the month of ey Nisan, in the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes; the wine was placed before me, and lifting it I gave it to the king. I enjoyed his favour, 2 and the king said to me, “Why is your face sad? You are not ill. This must be sadness of heart.” I was dreadfully afraid at this. 3 I said to the king, “May the king live for ever! And why should not my face be sad, when the city with my fathers’ graves in it is lying waste, and its gates have been burned with fire?” 4 Then said the king, “What request have you to make?” So I prayed to the God of heaven; 5 then I said to the king, “If it please the king, and if your servant has found favour in your sight, pray let me go to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, and rebuild it.” 6 The king asked me (his queen sitting beside him), “How long will your journey take? When will you come back?” So I proposed a certain time to him, and the king was pleased to let me go. 7 I also said to the king, “If it please the king, allow me to have letters for the governors west of the Euphrates, that they may let me pass till I reach Judah, 8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s park, ordering him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle belonging to the temple and for the wall of the city and for the house in which I shall reside.” This the king granted me, thanks to the kind favour of my God.
9 When I reached the governors west of the Euphrates, I handed them the king’s letters (the king had also sent with me some army officers and cavalry). 10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite slave Tobiah heard this, they were deeply hurt that a man had come to promote the welfare of the children of Israel. 11 Well, I reached Jerusalem, and after spending three days there 12 I got up during the night, I and one or two men with me; I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my mind to do for Jerusalem, and there was no beast in my company except the beast I rode upon myself, 13 as I rode out in the night by the Gai gate towards the dragon-spring, and the dung gate, to inspect the broken walls of Jerusalem and the gates that were burned with fire. 14 Then I passed on to the fountain gate and the king’s pool; but there was no room for me to ride. 15 So I went on by the brook and inspected the wall; then I turned back and came in by the Gai gate on my way home. 16 The guards did not know where I went or what I was doing. I had not yet told even the Jews or the priests or the authorities or the deputies or the rest of the workers. 17 But I said to them then, “You see the plight we are in, Jerusalem lying waste and the gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we shall no longer be scoffed at.” 18 And I told them of God’s kind 18 favour to me, and also of what the king had said to me. So they said, “Let us start and build.” And they set their hands bravely to the good work.
19 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite slave and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they derided and despised us. “What are you doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?” 20 But I replied, “The God of heaven, he will give us success; so we his servants will start to build. But there is no property, no rights, no memorial for you in Jerusalem.”