Nehemiah 1:6
let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 445 BC
WHEN
445 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Artaxerxes I king of Persia 465-424 BC
MEANWHILE
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447-432 BC Greece
Building of the Parthenon
While Nehemiah rebuilds the wall of Jerusalem, Athens builds the Parthenon.
SOURCES
- date — Nehemiah 2:1 dates itself by the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, which is 445 BC by Persian chronology.
- Artaxerxes I — Herodotus VII; Thucydides I; the Elephantine papyri
- Building of the Parthenon — Plutarch, Pericles 13
SEE ALSO
- Daniel 9:20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
- Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Psalms 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Psalms 106:6 We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
- Daniel 9:17-18 So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary. …
- 2 Chronicles 6:40 Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their…
- Isaiah 6:5 Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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