Nehemías 13:6

6 En esa época yo no estaba en Jerusalén porque había ido a presentarme ante Artajerjes, rey de Babilonia, en el año treinta y dos de su reinado,
aunque más tarde le pedí permiso para regresar.

Nehemías 13:6 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 13:6

But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem
Nehemiah, who was absent all the while these things were done by Eliashib, or otherwise they would not have been suffered:

for in the thirty second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, came I
unto the king from Jerusalem;
after he had governed there twelve years, to whom he came to give an account of affairs there; this was not Xerxes, as some ^F2 have thought, for he reigned but twenty one years; but Darius Hystaspis, who reigned thirty six years, according to Ptolemy's canon, and with which Herodotus ^F3 agrees; he is called king of Babylon, because that, with the whole empire, was in the hands of the king of Persia, as it had been from the times of Cyrus:

and after certain days obtained I leave of the king;
to return to Jerusalem again; not after five years, as Dr. Prideaux ^F4 thinks; for it is not likely that Nehemiah would stay so long ere he asked leave of the king to return to Jerusalem, which was so much his care, and on whose prosperity his heart was so much set; rather at most it was but a full year he stayed ere he got leave to return, as Vatablus and Piscator interpret it; in which sense the phrase of certain days is used in ( Leviticus 25:29 ) , and in other places quoted by the last mentioned interpreter.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Apud Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 8. 2.
F3 Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 1.
F4 Connect. par. 1. p. 397.

Nehemías 13:6 In-Context

4 Antes de esto, el sacerdote Eliasib, quien había sido designado para supervisar los depósitos del templo de nuestro Dios y quien también era pariente de Tobías,

5 había rediseñado un gran depósito y lo había puesto a disposición de Tobías. Anteriormente usaban el cuarto para almacenar ofrendas de grano, incienso, diversos utensilios para el templo, diezmos de granos, de vino nuevo, de aceite de oliva (destinados a los levitas, a los cantores y a los porteros), y también las ofrendas para los sacerdotes.

6 En esa época yo no estaba en Jerusalén porque había ido a presentarme ante Artajerjes, rey de Babilonia, en el año treinta y dos de su reinado,
aunque más tarde le pedí permiso para regresar.

7 Cuando regresé a Jerusalén, me enteré del acto perverso de Eliasib de proporcionarle a Tobías una habitación en los atrios del templo de Dios.

8 Me disgusté mucho y saqué del cuarto todas las pertenencias de Tobías.