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Ezra comes to Jerusalem

Ezra comes to Jerusalem is dated 458 BC. It is told in Ezra 7:8.

Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

Ezra 7:8 BSB

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning
458 BC
Traditional reckoning
458 BC
How it's dated
Persian reign years

Not in Theographic. The seventh year of Artaxerxes I.

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Sources: Ezra 7:7–8.

Where is it in the Bible?

Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.