Nehemiah (biblical figure)


Nehemiah (heb: נחמיה, Jah consoled) (5th century BC) - governor of the king of Persia in Judea, together with Ezra the reformer of Judaism. Nehemiah was the king of Artaxerxes I.

He was the son of Chakalias (Ne 1: 1) and was born in the so-called. Babylonian captivity. It is the leading figure of Nehemiah who describes the history of the return of the third group of Jews from exile to Jerusalem under the leadership of Nehemiah. He was elected the first governor of Jerusalem and initiated the reconstruction of the city walls. His religious reforms introducing many changes in Judaism overlapped with the work of Ezra.

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