The goodwill of Artaxerxes toward the ministers employed in the temple service, had been previously shown by his exempting them from taxation of every kind Ezra 7:24. Now, it would seem, he had gone further and assigned to the singers an allowance from the royal revenue.
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Nehemiah 11:23
23 For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.