This printer even prints a color photo in black and white or The work was hard and the enemies made it more difficult by mocking and threatening the Jews and Nehemiah. Brenton Septuagint Translation Im very glad to look your post. Thanks for the insight! Israel is Gods earthly time clock. He gathered his people together, he equipped them, and he led them in rebuilding the city walls of Jerusalem. I cannot say whether or not I agree or disagree with comments posted by previous contributors, but I thank you all of increasing my knowledge of the many ways in which we can view the bible. Nehemiah gathered the people together to rebuild the walls. 21After him Meremoth son of Uriah son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib. I really like all of the points youve made. Nehemiah built a spiritual wall for their covenant with God relationship presence help in time of trouble. Nehemiah 4 1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he mocked the Jews. 14Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the Kings Pool; but there was no place for the animal I was riding to continue. 17Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiahs letters came to them. For the purpose of brevity, the word week in this chapter will hereafter represent the Day of Pentecost, although using the full fifty-day time period of the Feast of Weeks will work equally well in the interpretation offered in this chapter.. 18For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah. The Second Reason: Water Neatly tucked away in the eastern slope of the City of David is the entrance to the ancient Jebusite passageway leading to the Gihon Spring. This interpretation fits the 70 weeks in all ways. 3They replied, The survivors there in the province who escaped captivity are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.. How did Nehemiah rebuild the walls? Notice the common names are in the same order in both lists. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down to you? 4They sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner. 13Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate; they rebuilt it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate. Ok Nissan is April and in the 20th year of the king. It happened at a time when the captivity of the Jews had already come to an end. The Scriptural basis for their calculations was likely Ezra 6:14. 13I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, So may God shake out everyone from house and from property who does not perform this promise. .but I remind you that that is not what God said through the prophet Daniel in verse 25. Ok so Ill show you something that ppl dont see and its on the 490 weeks of years prophecy Jeremiah wrote but Daniel was given the chronology on it. Nehemiah and his followers do what seems to be the impossible because they are doing what God has called them to do. When to fight? By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. The early Messianic expectants would have understood the verse to mean: according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, -even- Artaxerxes. 22After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, made repairs. Nehemiah 3 is even more specific. This is a powerful teaching It takes me back to when I was wrapping up my pursuit towards my diploma And ministered to me was God needed you left out so he Nehemiahed you left out its not that you did something wrong Terrill T.C a.k.a Relic. 2He said in the presence of his associates and of the army of Samaria, What are these feeble Jews doing? @ William You say that building the Temple is the de facto event in building Jerusalem, but I remind you that that is not what God said through the prophet Daniel in verse 25. If the Bible chronology is followed exactly as written, the reigns of the Hebrew kings synchronize perfectly with one another, without having to disregard Scripture and without having to accept long co-reigns not supported in the biblical text, and those reigns synchronize perfectly with the traditional chronology of Egypt as proposed by Ken Kitchen. This is where I admittedly find it frustrating when discussing this subject. They will be captured by many false competing Churches and charlatan Prophets around us. Thats not true if you hold to Chronicles and Kings you can see some major discrepencies. English translators have taken the liberty of translating it and denoting another separate Artaxerxes. A claim to an artists impression of Nehemiahs likeness is thus born. Christian chronologists have preserved this same reckoning of Ezra and Nehemiah because it is the only way to show that Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel 9. 17Then I said to them, You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burnt. 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It made the city smaller than the original boundaries. Our hearts. Next to them Zadok son of Baana made repairs. External attacks on the Church and some of the repair-workers. He immediately surveyed the damage to the entire city on his well-known night journey around the walls (Nehemiah 2:1215). The wall is made from stone and mortar with gates. Key Notes: The wall was done in 52 days. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your kin, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes., 15When our enemies heard that their plot was known to us, and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. Our God will fight for us.. (who came up with Zerubabbel) Talmon and Akkub were porters who kept the gates during the time Nehemiah was in Jerusalem. Are you rebelling against the king? 20Then I replied to them, The God of heaven is the one who will give us success, and we his servants are going to start building; but you have no share or claim or historic right in Jerusalem.. Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem and rebuilt the wallsin 52 days. The prophecy fits his advent exactly. So that the Mikdash would have been completed in his 6th year (Ezra 6), and Ezra would have led the return in his 7th year. [Nehemiah records] "Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived from Judah with another group, and I asked them about Jerusalem and about our fellow-Jews who had returned from exile in Babylonia. You don't have to rebuild a wall to do the will of God. In Part 1 prayer was discussed and in this article we have discussed preparation and . Ill stick with what the biblical text states, that the key time-location events are the decree of Caesar in 44 BCE and the building of the broad place and moat in 43 BCE.. sepia. 3I said to the king, May the king live for ever! That is to steep a cost and it would make them question why they hold the Babylonian traditions alive. Chapter 4 So let's pick up the story in Nehemiah 4. [] hidden behind weed-like wildflowers that grew out of cracks in the wall. Thus, if our anonymous artist had any intention, it would have been much more likely that this statue is his rendition of Lazarus rather than Nehemiah! We will soon discover that Nehemiah has a position of authority in the empire, being the 'cupbearer . So from the restoring of the wall in 492BCE to messiah the Prince in 2BCE, that equals 490. 10Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Neamiah returned to king Darius when he finished building the walls. The al so important, yet lost and presently under known appearance and working of the Urim and Thummim (Neh 7:65), was ignored in the text of the report concerning the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem. The symbolic focal point of the rebuilding efforts, the Temple, lie waste. . In this way the Persian era was eclipsed. And Jerusalem is a symbol of the city of God, God's dwelling place and the center of life for the world. YHWHs house is the heart of Jerusalem, without its completion nothing else matters. No, this was by no means a wall of Nehemiah, no rebuild per se, yet it did show evidence of repair. The only decree that does fit, and fit exactly using all of the biblical text, is the decree issued by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE that was recorded by Josephus as mentioned above. 7Next to them repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothitethe men of Gibeon and of Mizpahwho were under the jurisdiction of the governor of the province Beyond the River. After the wall was finished, Nehemiah did much good by reading the law of the Lord. Then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. "'Jerusalem's wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down. * Both men worked together to restore the city and rededicate its people to God. One day they were reading in the book of Moses out loud to all the congregation of people. If you've ever been to Jerusalem, and seen the size and capacity of the stones you realize the monumental task that was at hand. He also urged them to set up guards to defend against the constant threat of those who opposed their efforts, including the armies of Samaria, the Ammonites and the Ashdodites. A race of slaves emerge from slavery to become a nation. Nehemiah in Hebrew means: Jah is comfort. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the () twentieth year, as I was in () Shushan [] the [] citadel, 2 that () Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. Thats 12 years later than what ppl think!! 9So we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. The length of the walls is 4,018 meters (2.4966 mi), their average height is 12 meters (39.37 feet) and the average thickness is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet). This information is based on research from one of my favourite bible references- information which is taken from the Bible Encyclopaedia Insight on the Scriptures - No, Just the Outer Wall to The Temple & City: The house of Jehov. So about 444 bc Nehemiah journeyed to Jerusalem and aroused the people there to the necessity of repopulating the city and rebuilding its walls. The word restore is shuwb- its primary meaning is to return or turn back. Notice it went backwards in time? It took Nehemiah 52 days to reinforce the gaps and rebuild the wall. Nothing symbolically or literally even comes close to this command by YHWH, a command which was witness by both Haggai and Zechariah. Could we take 52 days to accomplish something similar? Now he could rebuild his beloved city of Jerusalem, its walls and gates. 19And I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spread out, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. This wall is said to have been 4.5 miles long, 24 ft at the base and just over 26 ft. tall. The 70th week does not start until the Anti Christ appears who make a covenant with many for one heptad (week) a 7 year period. Nehemiah 4-6. There was no other explanation but God. Building Jerusalem had been going on since the 1st year of Cyrus, that was never the issue. The ruins on the Western Hill were not occupied again until the Hellenistic period of Alexander the Great. I would also like to address a comment regarding Yeshu, the Roman Fabrication. Yeshua being a Roman fabrication is as reasonable and historically accurate as those who say Israel is a British one. The book of Nehemiah records the rebuilding of Jerusalem's city wall in about 445BC. As the fingers flipped through the pages of the Book I always run to when in need of comfort, I read the story of Nehemiah the non-cribber, man of action,a go-getter and also the man behind the wall. Equip. This can only be sadness of the heart. Then I was very much afraid. im so interested with 12 gates of jerusalem. How difficult would that be to hold a weapon and build the wall? Nehemiah understood the urgency of rebuilding the wall and because he was obedient to God, it was completed in 52 days (Nehemiah 6:15). The wall was at last completed52 days (a week shy of two months) after the reconstruction under Nehemiah commenced (verse 15). In that verse, the word weeks is used in the same way that, elsewhere in the Book of Daniel, Jewish calendar units were used as cryptic references to Jewish festivals. as the provincial governor of Judah/Yehud. Darius Hystaspes checks the records and confirms that in fact Cyruss did issue a decree and therefore the contruction could go on. The word used in Daniyel is shavuim, while the word for weeks is shavuot. 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. 3And I said to them, The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot; while the gatekeepers are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. 15So I went up by way of the valley by night and inspected the wall. 10When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. You see, God is NOT against building walls! Seek Gods knowledge now!! Four highly acclaimed books, published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution: Aspects of Monotheism, Feminist Approaches to the Bible, The Rise of Ancient Israel and The Search for Jesus. 7You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, There is a king in Judah! And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. How long did it take Nehemiah to rebuild the wall? This then would naturally explain the chronological flow of Ezra. Photo printing devices nowadays are manufactured in different sizes This company acts as an image bank/agency they own, or represent photographers (and artists, if recent), with regard to copyright. Moving on to the 62 sevens they have nothing to do with the original command to return and build Jerusalem. [] Nehemiah was a high official in the Persian court of King Artaxerxes I at the capital city of Susa, which lay 150 miles east of the Tigris River in what is now modern Iran. Thus, the time periods being designated in verse 25 are seven Pentecosts and sixty-two Pentecosts. The answer is that Nehemiah did not build on top of the ridge but repaired Hezekiah's mid-slope wall. 5Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord. Nehemiah and his team faced significant opposition yet, were able to rebuild the city walls in just 52 days. Why is a broken-down wall such a big deal? Sift through the storied history of ancient Israel. If you count the years backwards you will find the 70 years of divine anger began at the departure of the Shekinah from the temple as described in Ezekiel. There is only ONE expert.the God of the Bible. It would mean they would have to admit the redactions. Rebuilding the walls showed that God was with His people. and Artaxerxes comes from the waw proceeding Artaxerxes.