Nehemiah 2:15

so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE: Valley Gate, Kidron
WHEN: 445 BC

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WHEN

445 BC

dated by the text itself

WHO RULED

Artaxerxes I king of Persia 465-424 BC

MEANWHILE

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

2 Samuel 15:23 Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

UPDATED 10/26/2026