Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 12:7

⁵And I said to the king, If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant shall have found favor in thy sight, I ask that thou wouldest send him into Judah, to the city of the sepulchers of my fathers; then will I rebuild it.

⁶And the king, and his concubine that sat next to him, said to me, For how long will thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? and the proposal was pleasing before the king, and he sent me away, and I appointed him a time.

— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 12:7 —

⁸and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the garden which belongs to the king, that he may give me timber to cover the gates, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I shall enter. And the king gave to me, according as the good hand of God was upon me.

⁹And I came to the governors beyond the river, and I gave them the king’s letters. (Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.)