Cross references

Nehemiah 13:6

While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king

Nehemiah 13:6 BSB
  1. a Artaxerxes king of Persia is identified here as the king of Babylon because Persia had conquered the Babylonian Empire.

Nehemiah 13:6 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Nehemiah 5:14 (5 votes) and Exodus 32:1 (2 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 4 to Matthew 13.

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  1. Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

  2. Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

  3. After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them. They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

  4. Ezra 6:222 votes

    For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

  5. Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

  6. and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.” Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.

  7. But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

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