But, &c. — Eliashib took the occasion of my absence to do these things. Came I — From Jerusalem; where he had been once and again.
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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: