# Nehemiah 2:17

> Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

— Nehemiah 2:17, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem

## 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

- Ezekiel 5:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/5/14
- Isaiah 35:3-4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/35/3
- Nehemiah 1:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/1/3
- Psalms 79:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/79/4
- Lamentations 3:45-46 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/lamentations/3/45
- Lamentations 3:51 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/lamentations/3/51
- Psalms 89:50-51 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/89/50
- Lamentations 2:8-9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/lamentations/2/8

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2/17
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/nehemiah/2
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).