Nechemyah 2:9-11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁹ Then I came to the governors Beyond the River [Euphrates], and gave them the Iggrot HaMelech. Now HaMelech had sent captains of the army and parashim (a troop of horsemen) with me.

¹⁰ When Sanvalat the Choroni, and Toviyah the eved (official), the Ammoni, heard of it, it grieved them with a ra’ah gedolah that there was come an adam to seek the welfare of the Bnei Yisroel.

¹¹ So I came to Yerushalayim; was there 3 yamim.