The problem is that Nehemiah is interacting with a king called לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא or “Artaxerxes,” and it is impossible for this single person named לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא to be “Xerxes” because Xerxes did not have a 32nd year of his reign. Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. ( Nehemiah 5:14) In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. However, to accept that explanation seems to prove that our Bibles get something wrong, the reason it seems wrong is that the book of Nehemiah says the following thing about when he was governor of Judea: – 465 B.C.), and Esther had interactions with King Artaxerxes (464 B.C. The solution is that Ezra and Nehemiah had interactions with King Xerxes (485 B.C. There is a very clear solution to the chronology of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. In the last post, we ended with a conundrum after correcting a problem in the ESV Study Bible.
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