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The Rebuilding of Jerusalem. In the 20th year of Artaxerxes I (445 or 444 BC), [7] Nehemiah was cup-bearer to the king. [8] Learning that the remnant of Jews in Judah were in distress and that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down, he asked the king for permission to return and rebuild the city, [9] around 13 years after Ezra's arrival in Jerusalem in ca. 458 BC. [10]
The reference to Zerubbabel in the Book of Nehemiah is rather brief. The author of the Book of Nehemiah only refers to Zerubbabel in passing when the author states that: "These are the priests and the Levites which came back with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua" (Neh. 12:1).
A prince of Judah who joined in the procession with Nehemiah in Nehemiah 12:32–33. Azariah the son of Jehu and the father of Helez was a Jerahmeelite mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:38–39 . Azariah IV was a descendant of Aaron and the father of Seraiah which became the father of Jehozadak the father of Joshua the High Priest according to 1 ...
See also References L Laadah Laadah is one of the sons of Shelah, son of Judah (son of Jacob) in 1 Chronicles 4:21. Laadan See Libni Ladan See Libni Lael Lael (Hebrew לָאֵל "belonging to God") was a member of the house of Gershon according to Numbers 3:24. He was the father of Eliasaph. Neither of these is named in the Gershonite list in 1 Chronicles 23:7–11. Lahmi Lahmi, according to 1 ...
In David's case, this was done by the prophet Samuel. Initially, David was king over the Tribe of Judah only and ruled from Hebron, but after seven and a half years, the other Israelite tribes, who found themselves leaderless after the death of Ish-bosheth, chose him to be their king as well. [28]
In the last half of Nehemiah the emphasis shifts to the joint role of Ezra and Nehemiah in instructing the people in the Law and in the dedication of the wall, these two activities together forming the reconstitution of Jewish life in Jerusalem; [24] Dillard and Longman describe this as the moment when "the whole city becomes holy ground." [25]
In the letter, Prince William reflected on his 2018 trip to Israel, where he was accompanied by Rabbi Mirvis."It was a profoundly moving experience," the Prince of Wales writes. "I was struck by ...
Nehemiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the 11th chapter of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah as one book. [2] Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles ...