Nehemías 13:6

6 Pero durante todo este tiempo yo no estaba en Jerusalén, porque en el año treinta y dos de Artajerjes, rey de Babilonia, yo había ido al rey; pero después de algún tiempo, pedí permiso al rey,

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, encargado de los aposentos de la casa de nuestro Dios, y que era pariente de Tobías,

5 le había preparado un gran aposento, donde anteriormente colocaban las ofrendas de cereal, el incienso, los utensilios, y los diezmos del cereal, del mosto y del aceite prescritos para los levitas, los cantores y los porteros, y las contribuciones para los sacerdotes.

6 Pero durante todo este tiempo yo no estaba en Jerusalén, porque en el año treinta y dos de Artajerjes, rey de Babilonia, yo había ido al rey; pero después de algún tiempo, pedí permiso al rey,

7 y vine a Jerusalén y me enteré del mal que Eliasib había hecho por favorecer a Tobías, al prepararle un aposento en los atrios de la casa de Dios.

8 Esto me desagradó mucho, por lo cual arrojé todos los muebles de la casa de Tobías fuera del aposento.