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Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem's wall

Grieved for Jerusalem, Nehemiah obtained letters from Artaxerxes in his twentieth year, and the wall was finished in fifty-two days despite opposition (Nehemiah 2:1-8, 6:15). The AiG chart marks this commission at 454 BC, the terminus it uses for Daniel's seventy sevens (Daniel 9:24-27).

📖 Nehemiah 1:1

1These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,

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