Nehemiah 13:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

All this time was not I at Jerusalem; and Eliashib took the occasion of my absence to do these things, supposing that I would no more return thither. Came I unto the king, to wit, from Jerusalem; where he had been once and again. After certain days, Heb. in the end of days, or of a year, as that word oft signifies.

Nehemiah 13:6

6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and aftera certain days obtained I leave of the king: