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نِحِميا 2:1
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Concordances:
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- CondensedBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Nisan: Esther 3:7
the twentieth: Nehemiah 1:1, Ezra 7:1, Ezra 7:7
I took up: Nehemiah 1:11, Genesis 40:11, Genesis 40:21
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:14 - from the twentieth Nehemiah 13:6 - the two Psalms 102:17 - He will Proverbs 12:25 - Heaviness Daniel 9:25 - from
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass in the month Nisan; in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes,.... It was still but in the twentieth year of his reign; for though Nisan or March was the first month of the year with the Jews, and from whence the reigns of their kings were dated l; yet, with other nations, Tisri or September was the beginning of the reigns of their kings m; so that Chisleu or November being since, see Nehemiah 1:1, it was no more in Nisan or March than the twentieth of the said king's reign, and was three or four months after Nehemiah had first heard of the distress of his people; which time he either purposely spent in fasting and prayer on that account, or until now his turn did not come about to exercise his office, in waiting upon the king as his cupbearer: but now it was
that wine was before him; the king; it was brought and set in a proper place, from whence it might be taken for his use:
and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king; according to Xenophon n, the cupbearer with the Persians and Medes used to take the wine out of the vessels into the cup, and pour some of it into their left hand, and sup it up, that, if there was any poison in it, the king might not be harmed, and then he delivered it to him upon three fingers o:
now I had not been before time sad in his presence; but always pleasant and cheerful, so that the sadness of his countenance was the more taken notice of.
l Misn. Roshhashanah, c. 1. sect. 3. m T. Bab. Rashhashanah, fol. 3. 1. n Cyropaedia, l. 1. c. 11. o Vid. Heliodor. Ethiopic. l. 7. c. 27.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Nisan was the name given by the Persian Jews to the month previously called “Abib,” the first month of the Jewish year, or that which followed the vernal equinox. It fell four months after Chisleu Nehemiah 1:1.
The twentieth year - As Artaxerxes ascended the throne in 465 B.C., his 20th year would correspond to 445-444 B.C.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II
Artaxerxes, observing the sorrow of Nehemiah, inquires into the
cause, 1, 2.
Nehemiah shows him the cause, and requests permission to go and
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, 3-6.
The king grants it, and gives him letters to the governors beyond
the river, 7, 8.
He sets out on his journey, 9.
Sanballat and Tobiah are grieved to find he had got such a
commission, 10.
He comes to Jerusalem; and, without informing any person of his
business, examines by night the state of the city, 11-16.
He informs the priests, nobles, and rulers, of his design and
commission, 17, 18.
The design is turned into contempt by Sanballat, Tobiah, and
Geshem, 19.
Nehemiah gives them a suitable answer, 20.
NOTES ON CHAP. II
Verse Nehemiah 2:1. Month Nisan — Answering to a part of our March and April.
I took up the wine — It is supposed that the kings of Persia had a different cup-bearer for each quarter of the year, and that it had just now come to Nehemiah's turn.
