Nehemiah 2:9-11

Christian Standard Bible

⁹ I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters.^(A) The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me. ¹⁰ When Sanballat the Horonite^(B) and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to pursue the prosperity of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.^(C)

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¹¹ After I arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days,^(D)