Neh 13:6 | HCSB | STEP | While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem , because I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence

Nehemiah 13:6

6 While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes ^a of Babylon ^b in the thirty-second year of his reign. ^c It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence ^d