Many had taken foreign wives, and their offspring did not even speak the language of the Jews. For conditions to deteriorate so much, Nehemiah must have been gone for a long time.
हालात का इस कदर बिगड़ना दिखाता है कि नहेमायाह काफी लंबे समय के लिए यरूशलेम में नहीं था ।