Artaxerxes king of Babylon – See (Nehemiah 1:1). Compare (Ezra 6:22), where Darius Hystaspis is called “king of Assy…

The scandal of the high priest.

But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem Nehemiah, who was absent all the while these things were done by Eliashib, or…

Israel was a special people, not meant to mix with the nations. Consider the benefit of publicly reading the Word of God; when it is properly atten…