Nehemiah 2:7-9

7And I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may set me forward till I come into Judah;

8and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which [appertains] to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my 1God upon me.

9And I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of a force and horsemen with me.