And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles,…

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. Nehemiah 2:4 (KJV) Context Nehemiah served as cupbearer to King…

And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the…

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. Nehemiah 2:11 (KJV) Context Nehemiah served as cupbearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes I. When he heard that Jerusalem’s walls…

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem:…

And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were…

Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. Nehemiah 2:15…

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build…

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let…

And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave…