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. 492BCE minus 490 years leaves us at the Birth of Christ at 2BCE!! 12 gates in that map is still remain today? Give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man! 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. Therefore, Daniel was probably born about 620 BC. I have included Daniel 9:25 below just to be perfectly clear just what the biblical text states. 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. Here in the ninth chapter, the word weeks means Feast of Weeks, or, focusing on the main festival day as shorthand, it means the Day of Pentecost. 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. Its is the literal and symbolic event which marked Jerusalems restoration. See how ppl dont continue reading to see that the wall was continued in the 32nd year?! Then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. Your email address will not be published. Nehemiah served as the kings cupbearer (Nehemiah 1:11), which evidently put him in a position to speak to the king. In the eighth chapter of Daniel, the phrase evening-morning(s) was used to indicate Passovers. I am not a scholar or a biblical archaeologist, just someone who has viewed Nehemiahs role and strategies as a model of best practise in leadership and how to empower a community/ people. Even their servants lorded it over the people. So take 492BCE in Jeremiahs prophecy on the 490 years and until messiah the prince, whats that put us at? North Haven's Mortality Schedule: Nehemiah Stone, age 96, he born Maine, father in Mass, mother in Maine, farmer, died Feb 1880 of old age. 11:18-19; 1Chron. At the time, I was cupbearer to the king. We have supposed that Jeshua was 80 in the 6th year of Darius. and packages. Interestingly, after the completion of the wall, the people gathered in the 7th month, dwelt in booths and read the law according to the Torah. Respectfully, Nathaniel, you are incorrect in your interpretation. Sift through the storied history of ancient Israel. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.. Neither can be made to match the biblical record. [] 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. 14Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid. Each time a new Messianic zealot came along and needed a new basis for claiming a fulfillment of Daniel 9 they would conveniently associate the command given by YHWH in the 2nd year of Darius even Artaxerxes with the 2nd year of a new Artaxerxes thus eclipsing the Persian period by jumping from one to another. However, one Jewish tradition claims that, when Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt around 569 BC, he took Jeremiah from Egypt to Babylon, where Jeremiah died. A claim to an artists impression of Nehemiahs likeness is thus born. Because Haggai and Zechariah prophesied due to the command of YHWH. Nehemiah 12 identifies those chief of their fathers who went up with Jeshua and Zerubabbel in the 1st year of Cyrus. The championship title comes with the MPL trophy, individual medals and cash prize of 6 lakhs. The Bible doesn't say when she died. (who came up with Zerubabbel) Talmon and Akkub were porters who kept the gates during the time Nehemiah was in Jerusalem. In the twelfth chapter, the word days was used to indicate Day(s) of Atonement. 6So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. 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 new chronology I have introduced in my book Sacred Chronology of the Hebrew Kings (available for reading free on my website) shows how the chronologies of the Bible, Egypt, and Assyria are in perfect agreement when the correct chronology for the kings is used. Our Sunday sermons at church have focused on Nehemiah heeding Gods calling to re-build his beloved home. 11Malchijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. 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. It would mean they would have to admit the redactions. They consecrated it and set up its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred and as far as the Tower of Hananel. 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). If this is a reference to the prophet Zechariah, then we know how Zechariah diedhe was murdered in the temple courtyard. This is my understanding. 16 Therefore thus saith YHWH; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith YHWH of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. One of the signers of the sealed document (Nehemiah 10:23). While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. This can only be sadness of the heart. Then I was very much afraid. Dorothy Resig Willette is the former Managing Editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. Nehemiah. 16After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired from a point opposite the graves of David, as far as the artificial pool and the house of the warriors. So we have: 1. 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. Read Did I Find King Davids Palace? by Eilat Mazar as it appeared in the September/October 2012 issue of BAR for free in Bible History Daily. 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.. Contextually it was all about returning to the temple construction which had stopped. im so interested with 12 gates of jerusalem. The traditional Bible chronology based on Thieles harmonization of the Hebrew kings and the Rohl chronology for Egypt are incorrect. In the twelfth chapter, the word days was used to indicate Day(s) of Atonement. I assume you are talking about Daniel 12:11-13, which says the following: 11 And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. Tonyagonna have to chew on this for awhile! 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. In the reign of King Artaxerxes, Scribe Ezra, was authorised to take charge of the Jewish nation. In 1840 there were 4 Nehemiah families 6Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. The average age of a Joshua family WebNehemiah: Meaning, origin, and popularity of the boy's or girl's name Nehemiah plus advice on Nehemiah and 50000 other baby names from the bestselling nameberry experts. 6I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. Of course, no artist can claim knowledge of what any biblical character looked like. 7Then I said to the king, If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may grant me passage until I arrive in Judah; 8and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the kings forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy. And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me. 25Palal son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. Updates? Daniyel 9:25 says that the first seven shavuim begin min motsa davar in Daniyels own lifetime, whenever his supplications began (naturally, when the Temple was destroyed). 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. 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). Does this make sense? .but I remind you that that is not what God said through the prophet Daniel in verse 25. 21So we laboured at the work, and half of them held the spears from break of dawn until the stars came out. 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. No self respecting Jewish zealot would have based it upon a command given by men. It is in Hebrew , Nemyh, "Yah comforts". Each new messiah or their followers claim fulfillment of the prophecy based on a 2nd year of a Persian Artaxerxes. He was born in captivity. Lamech died at 777 years old, which Ezras genealogy would make him impossibly old in the 7th year of Artaxerxes I, as his father was killed when the Mikdash was destroyed. 9Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and gave them the kings letters. Let us stop this taking of interest. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, made repairs. 29After them Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his own house. The liberal wants to revise history by dithering about dates . Therefore, Daniel was at least eighty-two years old when the events of Daniel six happened, so he easily Could have died of the normal processes of old age at this point. Seek Gods knowledge now!! (1.) 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. If building the temple (YHWH house) in Jerusalem does not qualify as the de facto event in building Jerusalem then nothing does. God bless those truly seeking Him. Still, they are incorrect.Dan Bruce, The Prophecy Society. Nehemiah Davis passed away at age 83 years old on July 11, 2004. 7We have offended you deeply, failing to keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances that you commanded your servant Moses. Very good study. Nehemiah, also spelled Nehemias, (flourished 5th century bce), Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century bce after his release from captivity by the Persian king Artaxerxes I. This company acts as an image bank/agency they own, or represent photographers (and artists, if recent), with regard to copyright. He also made the other nobles and officials forgive all outstanding debts and ordered them to return all land and money that had been taken as taxes so the people would be able to feed themselves and their families. Another of Nehemiahs accomplishments was to make a record and genealogy of all the nobles, officials and people who were then living in Judah. Thats 12 years later than what ppl think!! Well, there you have it, thats how I see it anyway . 445-425 BCE - Nehemiah the Prophet Rebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem; City Confined to Eastern Hill. Then they said, Let us start building! So they committed themselves to the common good. Some scholars assume that Jesus was He enlisted the help of the people to quickly repair the breaches in the wall. Nehemiah was not a Jewish prince, although it is supposed he had royal blood in his veins. He was born in captivity. It was about one hundred years after Jerusalem was taken that he appeared upon the horizon. He was in the court of Artaxerxes, a cupbearer to the king, and held a high position. Yet he longed to hear from his native land. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.. The early Messianic expectants would have understood the verse to mean: according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, -even- Artaxerxes. Contextually there is no evidence for another Artaxerxes who was instrumental in getting the temple builded and finished by the 6th year as stated in Ezra 6. [] hidden behind weed-like wildflowers that grew out of cracks in the wall. Have a blessed day one and all. I really like all of the points youve made. The decree signified by Daniel 9 that starts the 70 weeks is the decree issued by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, that says: Gaius Caesar, consul the fifth time [in 44 BCE], hath decreed, That the Jews shall possess Jerusalem, and may encompass that city with walls; and that Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, the high priest and ethnarch of the Jews, retain it in the manner he himself pleases; and that the Jews be allowed to deduct out of their tribute, every second year the land is let [in the Sabbatic period], a corus of that tribute; and that the tribute they pay be not let to farm, nor that they pay always the same tribute. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14.10.5 (Whiston translation). Verse 25 states the following: Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah.. 3I said to the king, May the king live for ever! Photo: Zev Radovan. Most significant were its cracks, which [], [] I was having one of those 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. This decree or command by YHWH (in the 12th month, 2nd year of Darius) followed a similar decree given to Haggai just a few months earlier(Hag.1). In my opinion it does not represent a reasonable interpretation of the available Scriptural evidence. 3. I have seen some [arguing for Artaxerxes I] say that his genealogy leaves out some generations, but it doesnt really make sense that there should be a gap of 128 years right between his last ancestor in his genealogy and himself/his first dateable appearance. In official letters sent to Mizoram's two biggest cable TV operators, Doordarshan Aizawl states that it has observed the removal of DD Sports channel, depriving thousands of viewers of their right to watch the channel. We do not need to consider any kind of extraordinary means of his death. There is a way to solve these problems but they do not wish to handle it that way. This divine anger ended in the 2nd year of Darius. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel,.. 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.. The 1st part of the verse says they builded and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai and Zechariah. A link to the Universal (as it is now called) can demonstrate ALL the genealogy on the book of Genesis, using that demo as part of the theory verification: We know he survived the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus in 538 BC. 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. Read more. as the provincial governor of Judah/Yehud. 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. Ezra 7 begins with Ezra going up to Jerusalem in the 7th year of Artaxerxes the king. It is during 62 sevens that the wall and the street were built again. 5Then I said to the king, If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favour with you, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors graves, so that I may rebuild it. 6The king said to me (the queen also was sitting beside him), How long will you be gone, and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a date. 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. 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. This verse describes the commands which were instrumental in the rebuilding of the Temple and its eventual completion. Nehemiah Governor of Jerusalem: 460 BC 430 BC Malachi serves as Prophet: circa It is hard to guess how long he survived this event, but let us suppose that he died somewhere between 535 and 530 BC. Few people are familiar with the Biblical figure Nehemiah, and yet he was instrumental in the rebuilding and reestablishment of Jerusalem in the fifth century B.C. English translators have taken the liberty of translating it and denoting another separate Artaxerxes. My biggest problem with the article is your third supposition, quoted below: The third key to interpretation of the prophecy is to understand the time period meant by the Hebrew word weeks (BHS, Strongs OT: 7620) in verse 25. He is even given letters from the king to ensure safe passage and to obtain timber from the kings forest for the gates and walls of Jerusalem. YHWHs decree in the 2nd year of Darius Hystaspes (through Haggai & Zechariah) to restart contruction of the temple which had stopped sometime earlier. 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Chawnpui FC's Lalrinchhana also won the Best Player award. Nehemiah then apparently served as governor of the small district of Judea for 12 years, during which he undertook various religious and economic reforms before returning to Persia. Not even Michelangelo and his David! []. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. When Daniel received the vision, the 70 years of the captivity period spoken of in Jeremiah 25 were just drawing to a close. Interesting. 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. No, this was by no means a wall of Nehemiah, no rebuild per se, yet it did show evidence of repair. 1 Then the high priest Eliashib set to work with his fellow-priests and rebuilt I wonder if there might be some significance to the notion that it took 52 days to complete. 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. 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. Native land Yah comforts '' a claim to an artists impression of Nehemiahs likeness is thus born leaves at... 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