After some time in Susa he returns, only to find that the people have broken the covenant. The section of the 2,year-old Nehemiah wall, located just outside the Dung Gate and the Old City walls facing the Mount of Olives, was dated by pottery found during a recent dig at the site, said Hebrew University archeologist Dr.
Eilat Mazar. Walls can be seen as a source of imprisonment and division. They are often referred to as things we need to break down and overcome.
However, when we look at walls in the bible, they are also seen as structures that protect, providing security, and represent a place of shelter forming a sense of belonging. Jerusalem would remain in ruins for some six decades and without protective walls for over two centuries. As the Bible describes it, he was so driven to erect that barrier to protect the Jews from their enemies that he motivated a crew to work nonstop.
They completed the wall in a mere 52 days Nehemiah At the archaeological conference, Dr. Mazar announced to attendees that she had discovered this famed wall of Nehemiah. She has been working hard and fast, just as Nehemiah did 2, years ago. Ezra insisted upon the dismissal of these wives.
There was no other mention of him, until after the rebuilding of the city walls. Then Nehemiah asked Ezra to read the Law of Moses to the people. Nehemiah was cup-bearer to Artaxerxes.
The ruins on the Western Hill were not occupied again until the Hellenistic period of Alexander the Great. As can be understand now, from the studies in Intelligence, we know this device was a cube shaped set of 5 geometric solids.
I looked up the complete article from your website. My biggest problem with the article is your third supposition, quoted below:. In such a scenario, the seven weeks then become forty-nine years, and the sixty-two weeks become years.
Thus, the time periods being designated in verse 25 are seven Pentecosts and sixty-two Pentecosts. Accordingly, it can be seen that the time period covered by the prophecy of the seventy weeks is seventy years, not years. Where do you get the following statement from? Also, where do you get the following statement from? And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days. I do not see a reference to Yom Kippur in these verses.
Your theory is very interesting, but based on these statements alone, I cannot justify the 70 weeks referring to 70 years or 70 Shavuot. No, this was by no means a wall of Nehemiah, no rebuild per se, yet it did show evidence of repair. Most significant were its cracks, which […]. As the fingers flipped through the pages of the Book I always run to when in need of comfort, I read the story of Nehemiah — the non-cribber, man of action, a go-getter and also the man behind the wall.
Our lives are in ruin and we co-exist under the […]. It is interesting reading thoughts, theories and views expressed by all posted on this page from to As a leader with strong Christian values holding various ministerial positions in government at a state and federal level within our country, the writings of Nehemiah was my blue print on how to be strategic, diplomatic and never forgetting my purpose.
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. Rhema I have received from what Nehemiah did: he had a burden for his people; he went out and did want God wanted him to do; God did not give him a timeframe to do it in; and Nehemiah obeyed.
Nehemiah understood the urgency of rebuilding the wall and because he was obedient to God, it was completed in 52 days Nehemiah At the end all glory to God was given. Have a blessed day one and all. Amazing issues here.
Thanks a lot and I am taking a look ahead to contact you. Will you please drop me a mail? There is only ONE expert…. I enjoyed reading it all but it did leave a bad taste in my mouth as I thought how much unbelievers love to see us disagree with one another…just some food for thought to all. God bless. Thats not true if you hold to Chronicles and Kings you can see some major discrepencies. There is a way to solve these problems but they do not wish to handle it that way.
It would mean they would have to admit the redactions. That is to steep a cost and it would make them question why they hold the Babylonian traditions alive. The prince lowercase p is not Jesus Christ.
Christ is clearly cut off at the determination of the 69th week. 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.
The people of the prince to come were in fact those who destroyed the temple under Titus in 70 A. The prince to come is key to understanding these verses. The man of sin will in fact make a military protective covenant with Israel which ushers in the rapture of the called out born again church and begins the ticking on Israel for the last week.
Israel is not serving God as of now and so time is not calculated because of that. This printer even prints a color photo in black and white or sepia. Photo printing devices nowadays are manufactured in different sizes and packages.
Put in your recipe box or binder and keep the card template you used on file and then when you come across a new recipe just add it to the card and file. The picture of a statue of Nehemiah in this Bible History Daily article caused me to be suspicious. Of course, no artist can claim knowledge of what any biblical character looked like. Not even Michelangelo and his David! So I embarked on a little detective work. They make their money by licensing temporary rights for a specific use to newspapers, magazines and other media.
Location: St. Along comes Bible History Daily, rents the picture, crops it to show just the face and upper portion of the body. Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, current or in historical records of the past almost one thousand years, is there any reference to Nehemiah!
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! Willaim … If you can make that translation fit history, more power to you. In the past years, no one else has. My interpretation fits both Scripture and history. It is correct. I have read your theory and I do understand your position. In my opinion it does not represent a reasonable interpretation of the available Scriptural evidence.
Your interpretation of a verse does not make it any more the word of God than does mine. Right or wrong the rest is just opinion. Daniel 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.
William … You say that building the Temple is the de facto event in building Jerusalem, but I remind you that that is not what God said through the prophet Daniel in verse 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. May God bless your search for understanding. Looking at the verse in this context brings a little different picture. Here is a simple equation of the 1st part of that verse:.
I personally do not think Daniel 9 can be separated from the context of that time. When Daniel received the vision, the 70 years of the captivity period spoken of in Jeremiah 25 were just drawing to a close. The temple lay uncompleted. During this time according to Haggai 1 the people were busy working on their own houses.
This divine anger ended in the 2nd year of Darius. 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.
Zechariah 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? 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. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. What is the purpose of the book of Nehemiah?
Where is the wall that Nehemiah built? How big was the Wall Nehemiah built around Jerusalem? What is the message in the book of Nehemiah? What does Nehemiah mean?
When did Ezra return to Jerusalem? How long should it have taken Nehemiah to build the wall? How long did it take Ezra to travel from Babylon to Jerusalem? For what purpose did the king send Nehemiah to Jerusalem? How many miles is Babylon from Jerusalem? What is the background of Nehemiah? Where is Jericho today?
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