And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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 Neh…
Adam Clarke
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…
When Nehemiah had prayed for the relief of his countrymen, and perhaps in David's words (Psa 51:18, Build thou the walls of Jerusalem), he did not sit still and say, "Let God now do his own work, for…
Cambridge Bible
Neh 2:1-11. Nehemiah receives His Commission
1. Nisan See note on Neh 1:1. This name only occurs elsewhere in the O.T. in Est 3:7, -in the first month, which is the month Nisan," cf. Josephus, Ant.xi.…
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