Nehemiah 2:3-5

Legacy Standard Bible

³ I said to the king, “^(A)Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad ^(B)when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste and its gates have been consumed by fire?” ⁴ Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” ^(C)So I prayed to the God of heaven. ⁵ I said to the king, “If it is good for the king, and if your servant is good before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”