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Nehemiah

Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew

Nehemiah, cupbearer to the king of Persia, returns to Jerusalem and rebuilds the wall in fifty-two days amid mockery and threats. Then the people hear the law, confess their sin and renew the covenant.

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  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13

How it is laid out

  1. Rebuilding the wallchapters 1–7
  2. The reading of the law and the covenantchapters 8–10
  3. Resettlement and reformschapters 11–13

Key verses

Who wrote it

Much of the book is Nehemiah’s memoir in the first person (“The words of Nehemiah,” 1:1). In Hebrew it formed one book with Ezra; Jewish tradition says Nehemiah finished it (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 15a). Authorship is debated.

When it was written

Probably around 430–400 BC. The events run from the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (around 445 BC, 2:1) to his thirty-second year (13:6).

For whom, and in what situation

The Jews of Jerusalem and Judah, a province of the Persian empire, who were rebuilding the city and committing themselves to live by the law of Moses (8:1).

All the books

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