Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.(Nehemiah 1:10)

O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.(Nehemiah 1:11)

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 it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.(Nehemiah 2:1)

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?(Nehemiah 2:3)

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

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 city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.(Nehemiah 2:5)