John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 5:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, etc.] That is, by the king of Persia, which was not done when he was first sent into Judea; but very probably when he had finished the wall in fifty two days, he returned to Persia, and gave the king an account of his success, and how things stood in those parts, when he judged it necessary to send him again in the character of a governor, and which was still within the same year, as follows: from the twentieth year, even unto the thirty second year of Artaxerxes, that is, twelve years; (see <161306> Nehemiah 13:6). I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor; which was fit and proper for him, and used to be given him; neither he, nor those that assisted him in the government, the principal men he brought along with him, and put into posts and places under him.

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