The burden-bearers carried their loads in such a way that each laboured on the work with one hand and with the other held a weapon. 7We have offended you deeply, failing to keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances that you commanded your servant Moses. Ezras genealogy would make him impossibly old in the 7th year of Artaxerxes I, as his father was killed when the Mikdash was destroyed. They went up on the wall by the stairs at the Fountain Gate and then marched in opposite directions around the city. 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. Your email address will not be published. David Rohls chronology works only if one disregards major portion of the Hebrew Scriptures. How many days did Nehemiah pray? 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. Nehemiah is the account of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. . (Neh.8) This likely indicates this was a Sabbath year. We will do as you say. And I called the priests, and made them take an oath to do as they had promised. The 1st part of the verse says they builded and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai and Zechariah. The prophecy says..Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand,that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Princeshall beseven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. He also provided a place where the people could wait for God's salvation. Nehemiah asked some friends about Jerusalem. 14Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. Thats too big a price to pay. My interpretation fits both Scripture and history. 10One day when I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house, he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, tonight they are coming to kill you. 11But I said, Should a man like me run away? Building the Wall and Dealing With Resistance. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their watch-posts, and others before their own houses. 4The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built. Next to them Meshullam son of Berechiah son of Meshezabel made repairs. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace. 18I told them that the hand of my God had been gracious upon me, and also the words that the king had spoken to me. Nice talking to you. [], [] like in Nehemiahs time, we are living within broken down walls. Much work needed to be done, and Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah each led groups of the returned remnant in rebuilding the city of Jerusalem. Nehemiah 1:2-4 & 6:15-16. According to a story, Nehemiah, a high official in the Persian court of King Artaxerxes I at the capital city of Susa, was very troubled that there was no wall to protect his beloved city of Jerusalem, its walls and gates. The only animal I took was the animal I rode. Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of YHWH answered and said, O YHWH of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? 31After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper room of the corner. The KING is coming soon and HE IS A JEW, YESHUA HAMASHIACH/JESUS THE CHRIST! And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. 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. If building the temple (YHWH house) in Jerusalem does not qualify as the de facto event in building Jerusalem then nothing does. Contextually it was all about returning to the temple construction which had stopped. And the Old Testament book of Nehemiah records how Nehemiah completed that massive project in record time just 52 days. One of the most astonishing facts about Nehemiah is that he finished the walls in just 52 days. The church is named after St Lazare (Lazarus of Bethany, whom Jesus raised from the dead Gospel of John, 11) and, historically, was a famous place of pilgrimage because of its claim to have a piece of Lazarusskull as a relic, reputed to have the power to cure leprosy. (2 Peter 3:3) Sanballat and Tobiah ridiculed the work of God. Cyruss decree initially started the process, but then it was interrupted and the Temple construction stopped. Now he could rebuild his beloved city of Jerusalem, its walls and gates. Symbolically, it mightve made more sense for the building of the wall to take place over the course of 312 days [i.e. The name is pronounced / n i m a / or / n i h m a / in English. No, this was by no means a wall of Nehemiah, no rebuild per se, yet it did show evidence of repair. I am returned shuwb, the same word used in Daniel 9:25. I will not go in! 12Then I perceived and saw that God had not sent him at all, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 14After I looked these things over, I stood up and said to the nobles and the officials and the rest of the people, Do not be afraid of them. Then Nehemiah asked Ezra to read the Law of Moses to the people. Notice the importance YHWH, not man, places on the construction efforts: Zechariah 1:13-16 And YHWH answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. So come, therefore, and let us confer together. 8Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say have been done; you are inventing them out of your own mind 9for they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done. But now, O God, strengthen my hands. We will soon discover that Nehemiah has a position of authority in the empire, being the 'cupbearer . Chapter 13 says Nehemiah 13:6 6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king: 7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. Will they sacrifice? Note: I would like to make a clarification to my other post. Nehemiah 3 is even more specific. 9Next to them Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs. The 70 weeks are thus seventy Feasts of Weeks and are divided into three divisions: 7 weeks from 42-36 BCE, 62 weeks from 35 BCE-27 CE, and the final week ending in 28 CE at the beginning of Jesus ministry. Tonyagonna have to chew on this for awhile! Nehemiah brought all the Levites to Jerusalem for the inauguration. After hearing about the sad state of affairs in Judah, Nehemiah acquired the kings permission to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the city and its fortifications. 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. These take place in the 2nd year of Darius. In the twelfth chapter, the word days was used to indicate Day(s) of Atonement. May God bless your search. 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. Will they sacrifice? When Daniel received the vision, the 70 years of the captivity period spoken of in Jeremiah 25 were just drawing to a close. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, made repairs. . American Standard Version So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. That decree restores Jerusalem to a messiah (anointed one)/political leader (in this case, the high priest and ethnarch Hyrcanus II), and indicates that the seventy weeks will be fulfilled AFTER the broad place and moat has been rebuilt, an event that happened between 44 BCE and 43 BCE, when Antipater, appointed by Rome to assist Hyrcanus govern the city of Jerusalem, is known to have rebuilt the wall and tower gate (with the broad place for assembling troops behind the tower) and restored the moat in front of the wall by clearing out the rubbish that had been used by Pompey in 63 BCE to fill in the moat so his Roman troops could use siege engines against the wall. How many days did it take Nehemiah and his leaders to rebuild Jerusalem's walls? If you will read chapters six and seven in my book (link given above), you will see just how precisely the interpretation I have given fits recorded history and the Scriptures. Why is this important? 52 days God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. The prince (lowercase p) is not Jesus Christ. (Neh.12:25-26.) The word restore is shuwb- its primary meaning is to return or turn back. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. Have a blessed day one and all. If you sort through the rather scarce historical references of Messianic expectancy in the 1st century BCE you will find like Newton and Davidson that a huge portion of the Persian era was eclipsed. These are just chronological events which take place after the first 7 sevens. This is where I admittedly find it frustrating when discussing this subject. So it only took 52 days to build this wall, so from this time, its 492BCE. There is a way to solve these problems but they do not wish to handle it that way. 2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. The caption reads Nehemiah/Photo: Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY. Nehemiah encountered hostility from the (non-Jewish) local officials in neighbouring districts, but in the space of 52 days the Jews under his direction succeeded in rebuilding Jerusalem's walls. I found the picture on their website under the caption A prophet or Nehemiah west facade, south portal, right side, mid-12th c. Location: St. Lazare, Avallon, France. 10But Judah said, The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish, so that we are unable to work on the wall. 11And our enemies said, They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work. 12When the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, From all the places where they live they will come up against us. 13So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. This divine anger ended in the 2nd year of Darius. Really consider the words below. Now the 70 is a dual prophecy and the 2nd part is due to be fulfilled soon!! 6So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. Daniel 9:25 is tied to the 490 weeks of years when Nehemiah restored the walls in Jerusalem. Chapter 4 So let's pick up the story in Nehemiah 4. Daniyel 9:23 says that at the beginning of Daniyels supplications yatsa davar.. 9Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and gave them the kings letters. 16And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem; for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. As can be understand now, from the studies in Intelligence, we know this device was a cube shaped set of 5 geometric solids. http://www.google.co.id/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jesusplusnothing.com/studies/images/nehem3.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.jesusplusnothing.com/studies/online/nehem3.htm&h=487&w=479&sz=5&tbnid=QnjiF52e5PjYCM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=89&zoom=1&usg=__BFMaBwzC558rhaR9TbUt9gfkj1o=&docid=UL4e0C1vyquoqM&sa=X&ei=MgB-UMy6N4HJrQfEj4HQBA&ved=0CD4Q9QEwBA&dur=4303. Families and professional groups take on the responsibility for repairing stretches of the wall, while gates are provided with attics, doors, bolts and bars, and towers are rebuilt. 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.. It will represent the belief that He is alive, listening and able to respond. 20After him Baruch son of Zabbai repaired another section from the Angle to the door of the house of the high priest Eliashib. 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. 15And Shallum son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars; and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the kings garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David. It is during 62 sevens that the wall and the street were built again. Let us stop this taking of interest. Now the king had sent officers of the army and cavalry with me. The Book of Nehemiah is usually read together with the Book of Ezra as one long book. It would mean they would have to admit the redactions. The picture of a statue of Nehemiah in this Bible History Daily article caused me to be suspicious. Joshua & Zerubbabel restarted construction but their enemies lodge a protest with Darius Hystaspes. If the Artaxerxes of Nehemiah is Longimanus then this would mean those chiefs of their fathers were at the most conservative estimation, 122 years old. Could we take 52 days to accomplish something similar? 15The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people, and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Will they finish it in a day? 19Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people. Right or wrong the rest is just opinion. [Nehemiah 5:14 - Governor for 12 years before returning to the palace.] They knew that the command given by YHWH was in the same year as the command given by Darius, Artaxerxes, son of Hystaspes in his 2nd year. 3So I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. 3The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. Thus, the time periods being designated in verse 25 are seven Pentecosts and sixty-two Pentecosts. God bless. You see, God is NOT against building walls! Thats not true if you hold to Chronicles and Kings you can see some major discrepencies. 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