Nehemiah 2

^{1 b} Who is also called Darius: read {Ezr. 7,2}

^{1 a} Which was the first moneth of the yere & conteineth part of Marche & part of April.

^{1 !} After Nehemiah had obteined letters of Artaxerxes.

^{4 c} I desired God in mine heart to prosper mine enterprise.

^{7 /} Or, Euphrates.

^{8 /} Or, paradise.

^{8 d} As God moued me to aske, & as he gaue me good successe therein.

^{10 e} These were great enemies to the Jews & labored alwaies bothe by force & subtiltie to ouer come them, & Tobiah because his wife was a Jewesse, had aduertisement euer of their affaires and so wroght them great trouble.

^{11 !} He came to Jerusalem

^{14 /} Or, conduit

^{17 !} And buylded the walles.

^{17 f} That is, contemned of ther nations, as thogh God has forsaken vs.

^{18 g} They were incouraged & gaue them selues to do wel, & to trauel in this worthy enterprise.

^{19 h} These were thre chief gouerners vnder the King of Persia beyonde Euphrates.

^{19 i} Thus the wicked when thei wil burthen the children of God, wuer lay treason vnto their charge, bothe because it maketh them moste odious to the worlde, & also stirreth the hatred of princes moste against them.

^{20 k} Nether ye are of the nomber of the children of God (to whome he hathe appointed this citie onely) nether did anie of your predecessours euer feare God.