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Nehemiah rebuilds the wall
Nehemiah rebuilds the wall is dated 445 BC. It is told in Nehemiah 6:15.
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
- a Elul is the sixth month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of August and September.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- 445 BC
- Traditional reckoning
- 445 BC
- How it's dated
- Persian reign years
Not in Theographic. The twentieth 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: Nehemiah 2:1; 6:15.
Where is it in the Bible?
Which verses connect to Nehemiah 6:15?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Nehemiah 4:1–24 votes
Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- Psalm 1:34 votes
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Ezra 6:153 votes
And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
- Daniel 9:253 votes
Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.