See Ezra 7, Daniel 9 and Nehemiah 1 in Old Testament.

Biblical references to Lachish include Joshua 10: 3, 5, 23, 31-35 ; Joshua 12: 11 ; Joshua 15: 39 ; 2 Kings 14: 19 ; 2 Kings 18: 14, 17 ; 2 Kings 19: 8 ; 2 Chronicles 11: 9 ; 2 Chronicles 25: 27 ; 2 Chronicles 32: 9 ; Nehemiah 11: 30 ; Isaiah 36: 2 ; Isaiah 37: 8 ; Jeremiah 34: 7 ; and Micah 1: 13.

** Nehemiah R. Knight ( DR ), from January 9, 1821

In the King James Version of the Bible, " psaltery ," and its plural, " psalteries ," is used to translate the Hebrew keliy ( כלי ) in Psalm 71: 22 and I Chronicles 16: 5 ; nevel ( נבל ) in I Samuel 10: 5 ; 2 Samuel 6: 5 ; I Kings 10: 12 ; I Chronicles 13: 8 ; 15: 16, 20, 28 ; 25: 1, 6 ; II Chronicles 5: 12 ; 9: 11 ; 20: 28 ; 29: 25 ; Nehemiah 12: 27 ; Psalms 33: 2 ; 57: 6 ; 81: 2 ; 92: 3 ; 108: 2 ; 144: 9 ; and 150: 3 ; and pesanterin ( פסנתרין ) in Daniel 3: 5, 7, 10, and 15.

( Nehemiah 9: 7-8 )

Nehemiah 9: 18 " even when they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, ' This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!

Its title is inspired by a biblical expression ( Nehemiah 1: 5, Nehemiah 9: 32, Psalm 47, Daniel 9: 4, etc.

The golden calf is also mentioned by Ezra in Nehemiah Chapter 9, verses 18 – 19.

* Bible: Jonah 3: 8, Nehemiah 9: 1, Ester 4: 1-4, Job 16: 15, Psalm 30: 11, Matthew 11: 21, Revelations 11: 3

This early Biblical Hebrew name underwent a shortening into later Biblical, as found in the Hebrew text of verses Ezra 2: 2, 2: 6, 2: 36, 2: 40, 3: 2, 3: 8, 3: 9, 3: 10, 3: 18, 4: 3, 8: 33 ; Nehemiah 3: 19, 7: 7, 7: 11, 7: 39, 7: 43, 8: 7, 8: 17, 9: 4, 9: 5, 11: 26, 12: 1, 12: 7, 12: 8, 12: 10, 12: 24, 12: 26 ; 1 Chronicles 24: 11 ; and 2 Chronicles 31: 15 — as well as in Biblical Aramaic at verse Ezra 5: 2.

He is only mentioned in his relationship to Rephaiah ( Nehemiah 3: 9 ); there is no other biographical data regarding him.

The noun occurs 19 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible, once in 1 Chronicles 9, then the remainder in Ezra and Nehemiah, and always in the plural.

( Ezra 2: 36-39 ; Nehemiah 7: 39-42 ; 12: 1 )

The abuses which Malachi mention in his writings correspond so exactly with those which Nehemiah found on his 2nd visit to Jerusalem in 432 BC ( Nehemiah 13: 7 ) that it seems reasonably certain that he prophesied shortly before that date, i. e. between 445 and 432 BC.

Between Cyrus and Darius, an exchange of letters with King Ahasuerus and Artaxerxes is described ( chapter 4, verse 7 ), the grandson of Darius I, in whose reign Ezra and Nehemiah came to Jerusalem.

However, it is also given as the name of an Israelite person in 1 Chron 7: 8, and in Nehemiah 10: 19.

The Talmud ( Menachot 64b and 65a ) relates that his full name was " Mordechai Bilshan " ( which occurs in Ezra 2: 2 and Nehemiah 7: 7 ).

The satrap was in charge of the land that he owned as an administrator, and found himself surrounded by an all-but-royal court ; he collected the taxes, controlled the local officials and the subject tribes and cities, and was the supreme judge of the province before whose " chair " ( Nehemiah 3: 7 ) every civil and criminal case could be brought.

The Hebrew name Lod appears in the bible as a town of Benjamin, founded by Shamed or Shamer ( 1 Chronicles 8: 12 ; Ezra 2: 33 ; Nehemiah 7: 37 ; 11: 35 ).

It was originally called Kiriat Arba, or Kiriat-ha-Arba ( D. V. Cariath-Arbe, Genesis 23: 2, 35: 27 ; Joshua 14: 15, 15: 13, 15: 54, 20: 7, 21: 11 ; Judges 1: 10 ; Nehemiah 11: 25 ) from the name of Arba, “ the greatest among the Enacims ” ( Joshua 14: 15 ).

Descendants of Keriath-Jearim were among the Jewish exiles who returned to Judea with Zerubbabel ( see Nehemiah 7: 29 ).

* The number of men of Michmas at the census ( Bible, Nehemiah 7: 31 )

* Nehemiah ( August 16, 2004 ) ( CD / 7 ", both in heat reactive sleeves ; partially focused on the life of Nehemiah ' Skip ' James )

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

Originally combined with the Book of Nehemiah in a single book of Ezra-Nehemiah, the two became separated in the early centuries of the Christian era.

Found among the Writings within the Hebrew scriptures, I and II Chronicles form one book, along with Ezra and Nehemiah which form a single unit entitled " Ezra-Nehemiah ".

In, attributed to the time of the Persian Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter " to the governors beyond the river " requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.

The king sent Nehemiah to Jerusalem with letters of safe passage to the governors in Trans-Euphrates, and to Asaph, keeper of the royal forests, to make beams for the citadel by the Temple and to rebuild the city walls.

In a passage from the part of the Book of Ezra which overlaps with the Book of Nehemiah, it is mentioned that individuals who were unable to prove, after the Babylonian captivity had ended, that they were descended from the priesthood before the captivity began, were required to wait until priests in possession of Urim and Thummim were discovered ; this would appear to confirm the Talmudic view that the Urim and Thummim had by then been lost.

Schiffman believes the passage in Nehemiah is a midrashic interpretation of Lev.

The Karaite belief that the passage in Nehemiah states that the scribes " found " this commandment written in the Law of Moses, suggests that it was previously unknown.

( This last mission, that of Nehemiah, is not part of the Book of Ezra.

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible.

Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws ( Torah ).

The book tells how Nehemiah, at the court of the king in Susa, is informed that Jerusalem is without walls and resolves to restore them.

In the 20th year of Artaxerxes ( the King of Persia ), Nehemiah, cup-bearer to the King in Susa ( the Persian capital ), learns that the wall of Jerusalem is destroyed.

Sanballat accuses Nehemiah of planning rebellion against Artaxerxes, and he is opposed even by Jewish nobles and prophets, but the wall is completed.

A list of priests and Levites who returned in the days of Cyrus ( the first returnees from Babylon ) is presented ; Nehemiah, aided by Ezra, oversees the dedication of the walls and the rebuilt city.

Nehemiah is a cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes II of Persia-an important official position.

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

The Nehemiah Memorial is interrupted by chapters 8-10, which concern Ezra.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

Scholars are divided on whether it is based on Ezra-Nehemiah, or reflects an earlier literary stage before the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah accounts.

According to the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, Ezra-Nehemiah is hostile toward its northern neighbors and considers the northern Israel except for the " true Israel ".

Observance of Sukkot is detailed in the Book of Nehemiah and Leviticus 23: 34-44 in the Bible, the Mishnah ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 5: 8 ); the Tosefta ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 4: 28 ); and the Jerusalem Talmud ( Sukkah 1a –) and Babylonian Talmud ( Sukkah 2a – 56b ).

Shabbat is also described by the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Amos, and Nehemiah.

* May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt .- Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

It is likely that Ezra and Nehemiah were alive during this monarch's reign, as it was approximately at this time that the new walls of Jerusalem, demolished during the Babylonian period, were rebuilt.

* Elam is one of the men who joins Nehemiah in sealing the new covenant in Nehemiah 10: 14.

* Elam is a priest who helps in the rededication of the rebuilt walls of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 12: 42.