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Nehemiah 13:6
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Nehemiah 13:6
New Living Translation
6 I was not in Jerusalem at that time, for I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign,[a] though I later asked his permission to return.
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- 13:6 King Artaxerxes of Persia is here identified as the king of Babylon because Persia had conquered the Babylonian Empire. The thirty-second year of Artaxerxes was 433 B.c.
Nehemiah 13:7
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Nehemiah 13:7
New Living Translation
7 When I arrived back in Jerusalem, I learned about Eliashib’s evil deed in providing Tobiah with a room in the courtyards of the Temple of God.
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