Nehemiah 13:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And he had made him a great chamber, and there had they aforetime laid the offerings, the incense, and the vessels, and the tithes of corn, of wine, and of oil (appointed for the Levites, and the singers, and the porters) and the offerings of the Priests.
6 But in all this time was not I in Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of [a]Artachshashta King of Babel, came I unto the King, and [b]after certain days I obtained of the King.
7 And when I was come to Jerusalem, I understood [c]the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in that he had made him a chamber in the court of the house of God,
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- Nehemiah 13:6 Called also Darius, Ezra 7:1.
- Nehemiah 13:6 Or, at the year’s end.
- Nehemiah 13:7 Thus we see to what inconveniences the people fall into, when they are destitute of one that hath the fear of God, seeing that their chief governor was but a while absent, and yet they fell into such great absurdities: as appeareth also, Exod. 32:1.
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