Nehemiah 2:1
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It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been [before] sad in his presence.
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“Beyond the River” was Persia’s province west of the Euphrates, while Jerusalem’s Valley, Dung, and Fountain
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Nehemiah 2:1 mentions Beyond the River, Dung Gate, Fountain Gate, Jerusalem, Kidron, Siloam and Valley Gate.
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