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
Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth yea
After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.
Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “C
and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send m
But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and g
For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the he