The king’s words - These have not been given; but the royal permission to restore the walls is implied in Nehemiah 2:5-6.

Nehemiah’s cautious preliminaries.

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me .
&c.] Of the kind providence of God in exalting him i…

When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God had put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does not undertake …