# Nehemiah 2:13

> So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.

— Nehemiah 2:13, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem
- **Dragon Spring** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/dragon-spring
- **Dung Gate** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/dung-gate
- **Valley Gate** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/valley-gate

## When

- 445 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Nehemiah 2:1 dates itself by the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, which is 445 BC by Persian chronology.

## Who ruled

- **Artaxerxes I**, king of Persia, 465-424 BC · Source: Herodotus VII; Thucydides I; the Elephantine papyri

## See also

- Nehemiah 1:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/1/3
- 2 Chronicles 26:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/26/9
- Nehemiah 2:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2/3
- Nehemiah 2:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2/17
- Nehemiah 3:13-14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/3/13
- Nehemiah 2:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2/15
- Nehemiah 12:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/12/31

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2/13
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).