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.

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,

And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chamber.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:6 Called also Darius, Ezra 7:1.
  2. Nehemiah 13:6 Or, at the year’s end.
  3. 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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