⁶ Then the king^(A), with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time.

⁶ But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes^(A) king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission

⁷ and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib^(A) had done in providing Tobiah^(B) a room in the courts of the house of God.