Nehemiah 2:7
Douay-Rheims
And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they convey me over, till I come into Judea:
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
letters be given me to the governors beyond the river--The Persian empire at this time was of vast extent, reaching from the Indus to the Mediterranean. The Euphrates was considered as naturally dividing it into two parts, eastern and western (see on Ezr 5:3).
Source details
1871 · Neh 2:7
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.