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Excerpt from Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
Offifinal removal of these hindrances, the continuation and completion Of the building, and the dedication of the new temple, by means Of which the tribe Of Judah was enabled to carry on the worship of God according to the law, and to celebrate the festivals in the house of the Lord. In the second part, indeed, after giving the deqmiad Obtainem Artaxerxes, he speaks in a comparatively circumstantial manner of the preparations he made for his journey, of the journey itself, and Of his arrival at Jerusalem; while he relates but a single incident Of his proceedings there, - an incident, indeed, of the utmost im portance with respect to_the preservation of the returned community as a covenant people, viz. The disso ution of the marriages with Canaanites and other Gentile women, for bidden by the law, but contracted in the period immediately following his arrival at Jerusalem. Of his subsequent pro ceedings there we learn nothing further from his own writings, although the king had given him authority, after the wisdom of his God, to set magistrates and judges (vii. While the book of Nehemiah testifies that he continued his ministry there for some years in conjunction with Nehemiah, who did not arrive till thirteen years later: comp. Neh. Viii. - x. And xii. 36, 38.
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