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Nehemiah 2:1

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 never been sad before in his presence.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Year. It seems the Persians began the year with Tizri, since both Casleu (the third) and Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year) fall on the twentieth of the king. Wine. These kings drunk only that of Syria. (Strabo xv.) People of distinction were appointed cup-bearers; and even the children of kings did not esteem the office beneath them. (Herodotus iii. 34.) (Athen. x. 6.) (Homer) (Calmet) I was. Protestants, "I had not been before-time sad in his presence. "(Haydock) Hebrew literally, "I was not evil. "Septuagint, "an enemy, or stranger. "Arabic, "disagreeable. "Syriac, "sorrowful. "Septuagint also, "there was not another (ouk en eteros) present "chap. v. 6. St. Jerome seems not to have read the negation. (Haydock)

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