Nehemiah 2:1

Overview - Nehemiah 2
1	Artaxerxes, understanding the cause of Nehemiah's sadness, sends him with letters and commission to Jerusalem.
9	Nehemiah, to the grief of the enemies, comes to Jerusalem.
12	He views secretly the ruins of the walls.
17	He incites the Jews to build.

Nehemiah 2:1  (King James Version)
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.