And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. 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. Nehemiah served as the kings cupbearer (Nehemiah 1:11), which evidently put him in a position to speak to the king. 3I said to the king, May the king live for ever! However, week of years is not the meaning of the word weeks used to specify the seven weeks and sixty-two weeks in verse 25. 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. He also provided a place where the people could wait for God's salvation. 7But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the gaps were beginning to be closed, they were very angry, 8and all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. Neither can be made to match the biblical record. 30After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. 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? 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. Photo: Zev Radovan. Key Notes: The wall was done in 52 days. Daniyel 9 has nothing to do with Yeshu, the Roman fabrication. It also has nothing to do with feasts of weeks, nor does Daniel say anything at all about seventy weeks.. 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. 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. If the Artaxerxes of Nehemiah references Darius son of Hystaspes their minimum age would have been 66 years. 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 Since 1954, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has been challenging coaches and athletes to use the powerful medium of athletics to impact the world for Jesus Christ, reaching millions worldwide. He gathered his people together, he equipped them, and he led them in rebuilding the city walls of Jerusalem. I think he has placed Israel History in proper date chronology. Yodie. One side is built on the. 1The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. . In an individual life, then, the rebuilding of the walls would be a picture of re-establishing the strength of that life. Nehemiah told their enemies, "The God of heaven will give us success. One day they were reading in the book of Moses out loud to all the congregation of people. And rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in 52 days. The name is pronounced / n i m a / or / n i h m a / in English. The word used in Daniyel is shavuim, while the word for weeks is shavuot. 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. Now the 70 is a dual prophecy and the 2nd part is due to be fulfilled soon!! The traditional Bible chronology based on Thieles harmonization of the Hebrew kings and the Rohl chronology for Egypt are incorrect. I dont think the prophecy of Daniel 9 gets the attention it deserves in regards to the influence it has had on Biblical and secular chronology. "Nehemiah 6:15", and "The city of . Lots of debate here and that is ok as long as we remember that in-fighting amongst believers only makes the unbelievers more of an unbeliever. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.. See how ppl dont continue reading to see that the wall was continued in the 32nd year?! Thanks for the article. Our God will fight for us.. 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. And the Old Testament book of Nehemiah records how Nehemiah completed that massive project in record time just 52 days. 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. Israel is Gods earthly time clock. Nehemiah served as the kings cupbearer (Nehemiah 1:11), which evidently put him in a position to speak to the king and request favors from him. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, made repairs. Thanks for the insight! You don't have to rebuild a wall to do the will of God. And next to them Zaccur son of Imri built. I have read your theory and I do understand your position. 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. Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem's Walls (Nehemiah 2:11-16) Landmarks in Building the Wall of Jerusalem ( Larger map) Notice carefully Nehemiah's strategy. As noted earlier a variation on this tradition has been carried on by Christians today in their association of Artaxerxes with the Persian Longimanus. There was no other mention of him, until after the rebuilding of the city walls. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs; and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall. 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? The words of Ezra 6 lays it all out in chronological order. Read more. Eternal Wall represents the strength of God. According to Jewish tradition the Artakhshast of Ezra and Nehemyah is the same as Daryavesh I. 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. 28Above the Horse Gate the priests made repairs, each one opposite his own house. Your email address will not be published. 1Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no gap left in it (though up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they intended to do me harm. It was God's work and He protected His people and they completed the wall in 52 days. Chapter 5 says, he finished the wall in the 32nd year of the king!!! 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. Also, where do you get the following statement from? 4When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven. Each issue of Biblical Archaeology Review features lavishly illustrated and easy-to-understand articles such as: Fascinating finds from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament periods, The latest scholarship by the world's greatest archaeologists and distinguished scholars, Stunning color photographs, informative maps, and diagrams, Reviews of the latest books on biblical archaeology, 45+ years of Biblical Archaeology Review, 20+ years of Bible Review online, providing critical interpretations of biblical texts. Nehemiah asked some friends about Jerusalem. 21So we laboured at the work, and half of them held the spears from break of dawn until the stars came out. No machinery. 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 ). 9Next to them Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs. So I embarked on a little detective work. Where do you get the following statement from? Will they sacrifice? Nehemiah 4 1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he mocked the Jews. The wall was completed in 52 days, on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul. i found map of 12 gates of jerusalem according to nehemiah. The first three chapters of Nehemiah cover the rebuilding of the walls to keep the people of God safe. to quickly repair the breaches in the wall, Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Destruction of the Temple, http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/80353228.jpg, http://www.prophecysociety.org/books/LV2012/LV-091.html. 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. This is the command to return and build Jerusalem. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. The wall had lain in rubble for 140 years waiting; when Nehemiah presented the need, forty-two families responded to help in the reconstruction of the wall. You see, God is NOT against building walls! The following text is the first portion of the Nehemiah Memoir (1:17:4) from the New Revised Standard Version. It is the bedrock foundation upon which Jerusalems restoration began. Most significant were its cracks, which [], [] I was having one of those days. 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. Notice the verse again. YHWHs house is the heart of Jerusalem, without its completion nothing else matters. 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.. Again I ask you to consider. This event symbolically and chronologically marked the end of the 70 years of Jerusalems desolation. Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem in 445 B.C. How difficult would that be to hold a weapon and build the wall? 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. The Finklestein chronology, which dismisses the biblical record almost entirely, is also incorrect.Dan Bruce, The Prophecy Society. When to fight? 13I went out by night by the Valley Gate past the Dragons Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. [Nehemiah 5:14 - Governor for 12 years before returning to the palace.] He expounded and enforced the Law of God. 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. 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. As a mentor to others you aspire to be leaders in their community, I have referred to Nehemiahs strategic approach to reforming the hopes and aspirations of a people and nation many times. 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. Here is Gods version of revising history. (B) This single letter and its use is the basis for the120 years of missing chronology as well as Christian chronologists attempts to show that Nehemiah and Ezra were contemporary with Artaxerxes Longimanus. Im very glad to look your post. Nehemiah 6:15 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) 15 The wall was completed (A) in 52 days, on the twenty-fifth day of the month Ellul. The prince to come is key to understanding these verses. YHWH was telling the people to shuwb or return and build His house that they were neglecting. The caption reads Nehemiah/Photo: Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY. Because Haggai and Zechariah prophesied due to the command of YHWH. 1Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. 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. 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. It took Nehemiah 52 days to reinforce the gaps and rebuild the wall. English translators have taken the liberty of translating it and denoting another separate Artaxerxes. Thus, the time periods being designated in verse 25 are seven Pentecosts and sixty-two Pentecosts. 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. Right or wrong the rest is just opinion. 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? 17Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty people, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations around us. 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. 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. 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 ). 16Indeed, I devoted myself to the work on this wall, and acquired no land; and all my servants were gathered there for the work. 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. Nehemiah was cup-bearer to Artaxerxes. Nehemiah and his team faced significant opposition yet, were able to rebuild the city walls in just 52 days. 3So I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Nehemiah 810 is considered part of the so-called Ezra Source (which includes Ezra 710), while Nehemiah 17 and 1113 are from a separate source that scholars call the Nehemiah Memoir. The Nehemiah Memoir is written in the first person and recounts details of Nehemiahs life, his deeds and his administration of the province, probably meant to serve as an official record of his accomplishments to be deposited in the Temple archives (by genaa). The hurried work of repairing and rebuilding Jerusalems walls and gates was completed in just 52 days (Nehemiah 6:15). (Neh.8) This likely indicates this was a Sabbath year. Nehemiah built a spiritual wall for their covenant with God relationship presence help in time of trouble. Cyruss decree which started contruction of the temple. 19Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people. No, this was by no means a wall of Nehemiah, no rebuild per se, yet it did show evidence of repair. Our hearts. Truth of the matter is we will NEVER know all the facts and truths in this life..only the next. The word restore is shuwb- its primary meaning is to return or turn back.
how did nehemiah build the wall in 52 days
