Nehemiah 2:4-6

Nehemiah Sent to Judah

⁴ Then the king said to me, "What are you requesting?" So I prayed _c to the God of heaven. ⁵ And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it." ⁶ And the king said to me ( _d the queen sitting beside him), "How long will you be gone, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me _e when I had given him a time.

1. Cross References
   Nehemiah 2:20
   Then I replied to them, "The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.
   Nehemiah 1:4 - 5
   As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
   Ezra 5:12
   But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.
   Daniel 2:18
   And told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 45:9
   Daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
   
3. Cross References
   Nehemiah 5:14
   Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.
   Nehemiah 13:6
   While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king