Rashi, on Neh 2:8

“And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.”

“And a letter to Asaph and that you send a letter to Asaph. the guardian of the king’s orchard He was appointed over the king’s forests. to make beams This is the intensive conjugation: to make ceilings and beams for the gates of the castles of the Temple Mount, for they had built the Temple as it should be built, but the gates of the walls of the Temple Mount and the wall for the court surrounding the Temple had not yet been built. and for the wall of the city and to make beams for the wall of the city. and for the house to which I shall go and to make a house in which I shall dwell for my needs. and the king gave me all I asked him for. according to the good hand according to the hand of the Holy One, blessed be He, which was good upon me, to cause me to succeed.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.