SCRIPTORIA BIBLE

Nehemiah 2:16

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

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

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