They make their money by licensing temporary rights for a specific use to newspapers, magazines and other media. [] 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. This is my understanding. Where do you get the following statement from? 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. A survey of websites with information on the town of Avallon and its church with its unusual, single portal statue (the front entrance of most mediaeval churches with such statues are usually lined by several of them on either side), ALL refer to it as depicting a prophet. There is certainly a lot to learn about this subject. Verse 24 gives the big picture overview of what takes place during the entire 70 weeks. 5I said, O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments; 6let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for your servants the people of Israel, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. And thus the wall was built again "even in troublesome times," just as had been foretold in Daniel 9:25. Defying the opposition of Judahs enemies on all sidesSamaritans, Ammonites, Arabs and Philistines, the original walls of the City of David were rebuilt by the people in 52 days, working with a trowel in one hand & a sword in the other. The traditional Bible chronology based on Thieles harmonization of the Hebrew kings and the Rohl chronology for Egypt are incorrect. How many days did it take Nehemiah and his leaders to rebuild Jerusalem's walls? The governors of surrounding territories viciously oppose Nehemiah's efforts, but the wall is finished in just 52 days ( Neh 7:15 ). Nehemiah decides that the fortifications have to be rebuilt. Thats too big a price to pay, and unnecessary. 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. And rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in 52 days. English translators have taken the liberty of translating it and denoting another separate Artaxerxes. Dorothy Resig Willette is the former Managing Editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Ezra and Nehemiah took place during the period of what?, What nation was in power during the events in Ezra and Nehemiah?, This persian king allowed the jews to return and rebuild the temple of Jersualem and more. Nehemiah 10 identified many of those same men as being sealed with Nehemiah in the 20th year of Artaxerxes. 2And the men of Jericho built next to him. It happened at a time when the captivity of the Jews had already come to an end. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it" ( Nehemiah 2:20 ). 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. . Despite the free time, which is a rarity in my life, beautiful breezy weather and a book I cant stop reading, my mood was, lets put it nicely, stormy. The early Messianic expectants would have understood the verse to mean: according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, -even- Artaxerxes. In the eighth chapter of Daniel, the phrase evening-morning(s) was used to indicate Passovers. If you are talking about Daniel 8:14, I do not see anything about Pesach. 1Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. 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. How long was Nehemiah in Jerusalem? The liberal wants to revise history by dithering about dates . 14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith YHWH of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. The Book of Nehemiah is usually read together with the Book of Ezra as one long book. 12 gates in that map is still remain today? The wall was at last completed52 days (a week shy of two months) after the reconstruction under Nehemiah commenced (verse 15). In the reign of King Artaxerxes, Scribe Ezra, was authorised to take charge of the Jewish nation. It took Nehemiah 52 days to reinforce the gaps and rebuild the wall. 2In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. Nehemiah 1:2-4 & 6:15-16. Virtually any citizen of the ancient world could tick off three reasons why a wall was far more than just a pile of rocks. Thus, the time periods being designated in verse 25 are seven Pentecosts and sixty-two Pentecosts. 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. . 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. . That would put Ezras aliyah around 515 BCE, and Nehemyahs time in Yerushalayim from around 502 BCE to 490 BCE. 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. God bless those truly seeking Him. 3I said to the king, May the king live for ever! ' When I heard these things, I sat down and wept" (Nehemiah 1:3-4). In this way the Persian era was eclipsed. Neamiah returned to king Darius when he finished building the walls. Nehemiah 3 is even more specific. Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, current or in historical records of the past almost one thousand years, is there any reference to Nehemiah! Eternal Wall represents the strength of God. 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! What many commentators fail to notice is that up until the 2nd year Darius (Hystaspes) Judah & Jerusalem were still under a period of 70 years of divine indignation (Zech.1). One of the most astonishing facts about Nehemiah is that he finished the walls in just 52 days 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. Its is the literal and symbolic event which marked Jerusalems restoration. 12Next to him Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs, he and his daughters. Anyways, so ppl pin point the building of the walls by Nehemiah being in the 20th year of this king which is Darius the great who was married to queen Esther. It is during 62 sevens that the wall and the street were built again. 13He was hired for this purpose, to intimidate me and make me sin by acting in this way, and so they could give me a bad name, in order to taunt me. 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. May God bless your search for understanding. It was now the 25th day of Elul, only five days prior to the Feast of Trumpets. The end of days never refers to Yom Kippur in the Tanach. 16The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest that were to do the work. 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. Ironic, that the work of rebuilding the wall was done in a kind of sabbath [i.e. seventh] of one year, since work was not to be done on a sabbath. But afterwards, in applying the prophecy to Theudas, and Judas of Galilee, and at length to Bar Cochab, they seem to have shortened the reign of the Kingdom of Persia. (Chron. Then they said, Let us start building! So they committed themselves to the common good. Of the three commands to rebuild the temple as mentioned in Ezra 6, clearly the command by YHWH through Haggai and Zechariah would be the one a Messianic Zealot or their followers would use to base their claim for the fulfillment of Daniel 9. Although Newton believed the early messianic expectants based their counting from the 1st year of Cyrus, it is more likely as Davidson noted, the 2nd year of Darius Hystaspes which was the basis for the chronological errors that crept into the early rabbinic chronology. So this is how it works Foto Marburg has plenty of Abrahams, Davids, Jesuses (Jesi?) So they relocated the eastern wall higher up the slope and, according to author Eilat Mazar, built it directly on top of a ruined wall of King Davids palace (also known as the Large Stone Structure) and its massive rampart (known as the Stepped Stone Structure). So from the restoring of the wall in 492BCE to messiah the Prince in 2BCE, that equals 490. Ok kislev is November, and notice it says the 20th year of the king? If you have a year exactly equal to 364 days (the solar year used by the Book of Jubilees), then 52 days is exactly one-seventh of a year. If building the temple (YHWH house) in Jerusalem does not qualify as the de facto event in building Jerusalem then nothing does. None of the Persian-era decrees fit the text of Daniel 9. 19But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they mocked and ridiculed us, saying, What is this that you are doing? 1In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was served to him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. As governor, Nehemiah says that he didnt take advantage of food and land allotments that were allowed him due to his office, because there was already such a great burden on the people of his province (Nehemiah 5:1419). Cyruss decree initially started the process, but then it was interrupted and the Temple construction stopped. Give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man! And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me. Also, where do you get the following statement from? Thats 12 years later than what ppl think!! 9:1-19) They were also present at the completion and dedication of the wall. 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. Just shows to go you that, just because a guy pulls up his sleeves, and is the first one to jump in and work, it sometimes doesnt mean what it appears to mean. Building Jerusalem had been going on since the 1st year of Cyrus, that was never the issue. 1Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2I gave my brother Hanani charge over Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadelfor he was a faithful man and feared God more than many. We can learn about the society where the ancient Israelites, and later Jesus and the Apostles, lived through the modern discoveries that provide us clues. 24After him Binnui son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the Angle and to the corner. Here is where the problem develops in the chronology. They told me that those who had survived and were back in the homeland were in great difficulty and that the foreigners who lived . Here is Gods version of revising history. [] hidden behind weed-like wildflowers that grew out of cracks in the wall. Tonyagonna have to chew on this for awhile! He also provided a place where the people could wait for God's salvation. 11O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Nehemiah was cup-bearer to Artaxerxes. 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. Along comes Bible History Daily, rents the picture, crops it to show just the face and upper portion of the body. And Jerusalem is a symbol of the city of God, God's dwelling place and the center of life for the world. The people of the prince to come were in fact those who destroyed the temple under Titus in 70 A.D. Of course, no artist can claim knowledge of what any biblical character looked like. In the past 2000 years, no one else has. This theme actually comes from the book of Nehemiah (2:20), which describes how God led the people Israel in the task of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. This interpretation fits the 70 weeks in all ways. The word used in Daniyel is shavuim, while the word for weeks is shavuot. After him Meshullam son of Berechiah made repairs opposite his living quarters. Before the seven Pentecosts begin, the tower gate with its broad place and the wall with its trench in front that were destroyed by Pompey in 63 BCE will have been rebuilt (from my book Lifting the Veil on the Book of Daniel, page 92, or see full discussion at http://www.prophecysociety.org/books/LV2012/LV-091.html ). 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. Kind of like a pervert pedophile looking for a job with the boys choir or the boy scouts, I guess. 52 x 6 days], with the next 52 days being a symbolic sabbath of rest following all that work. From the coming forth means the times were set at the finish. Nothing else would qualify. 22After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, made repairs. 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. However, there is a world of difference between an artists own title to his work and the labeling of a picture hundreds of years later without any proof of the artists original intention. 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. Once there, Nehemiah defied the opposition of Judah's enemies on all sidesSamaritans, Ammonites, Arabs and Philistinesand rebuilt the walls within 52 days, from the Sheep Gate in the North, the Hananeel Tower at the North West corner, the Fish Gate in the West, the Furnaces Tower at the Temple Mount's South West. At the 70 year time, we go into great tribulation, the final 3 and a half years. Yodie. 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. Because Haggai and Zechariah prophesied due to the command of YHWH. By this time, exiles who were taken at the time of the Babylonian conquest had already been allowed to return to their homeland, and the ones that did had already rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem. Daniel 9:25 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Nehemiah rebuilt the wall to protect the people from the enemies. 29After them Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his own house. The Temple, the city walls, and the gates had been destroyed as a result of the three invasions of Nebuchadnezzar and his forces in 606 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC. Of all of the English translations of Daniel 9:25, Youngs Literal Translation is perhaps the best (but still imperfect), saying And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader [is] seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. A good fulfillment paraphrase of verse 25, substituting real events and real names from history for the biblical language, would read something like this: Observe with your eyes and calculate with your mind, that after the issuance of the decree by Julius Caesar to Hyrcanus II, high priest and ethnarch (the anointed one-prince) of the Jews, restoring him to rule in Jerusalem (the first restoration) and granting him permission to rebuild its fortifications, until his repatriation from Parthia to Jerusalem by Herod (the second restoration), there will be seven Pentecosts, followed by sixty-two Pentecosts. Access to 50+ curated Special Collections. 7We have offended you deeply, failing to keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances that you commanded your servant Moses.