The Old and New Testaments connected : in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declensions of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ . THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS CONNECTED, &c. BOOK VL HE who succeeded Ezra in the government of Judah andJerusalem, was Nehemiah,* a very religious and mostexcellent person; one that was nothing behind his IXx*^predecessor, saving his learning and great knowledgein the law of God. He came to Jerusalem in the twentiethjear of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and, by a commission fromhim, suppressed that of Ezra, and succeeded him in the
The Old and New Testaments connected : in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declensions of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ . THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS CONNECTED, &c. BOOK VL HE who succeeded Ezra in the government of Judah andJerusalem, was Nehemiah,* a very religious and mostexcellent person; one that was nothing behind his IXx*^predecessor, saving his learning and great knowledgein the law of God. He came to Jerusalem in the twentiethjear of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and, by a commission fromhim, suppressed that of Ezra, and succeeded him in the go-vernment of Judah and Jerusalem. And he had in that com-mission, by an express clause therein inserted, full authoritygiven him to repair the walls and set up the gates of Je-rusalem, and to fortify it again in the same manner as it wasbefore it was dismantled and destroyed by the was a Jew, whose ancestors had formerly been citizensof Jerusalem ; for there, he saith, was the place of his fa-thers sepulchres.*^ But as to the tribe or family which hewas of, no more is said, but only that his fathers name wasHachaliah ; who seemeth to have been o
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