Nehemiah 13:6 meaning and explanation
While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
Nehemiah 13:6, Berean Standard Bible
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Nehemiah speaks here in his own voice, explaining a gap in his oversight of Jerusalem. After twelve years as governor he had gone back to King Artaxerxes, his Persian overlord, in the king's thirty-second year, around 432 BC.
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