And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits.
Remember me, O my God, for good. This prayer for the divine blessing, which Nehemiah frequently ejaculated and wrote, was an expression of his ardent wish or his desire to have the apostate priests punished, and his own zealous services acknowledged and rewarded, according to the spirit of the old dispensation. How long Nehemiah lived and governed after these important reformations, the sacred history does not inform us; and Josephus ('Antiquities,' b. 11: ch. 5:, sec. 8) says no more than that he had attained an advanced age at his death.