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    more history: @Peter1469 you might be interested in this considering your posting of your topic 'Titus'

    https://focusonjerusalem.com/thefallofjerusalem.html


    A few Jerusalem facts:
    Jerusalem is located on a high ridge, consisting of 3 hills. Along the east of the city is the Kidron Valley (in which runs the Brook Kidron, including the Pool of Gihon), to the south is the Valley of Hinnom, to the west is the Valley of Gehenna. The Mount of Olives, where Jesus was arrested, is just to the east, across the Kidron Valley.

    Archaeological studies indicate that the city is very ancient, having been established perhaps more than 2,000 years before it was captured from the Jebusites by King David of Israel, about 1,000 B.C. Jerusalem had earlier been named Salem (Genesis 14:18) and Jebus (1 Chronicles 11:4). Salem meant peace.

    The city is mentioned throughout the Bible, over 600 times in the Old Testament, less in the New Testament.

    The first mention of the name Jerusalem is found in Joshua chapter 10.

    The first Temple was constructed by Solomon over a period of about 12 years, with completion being around 950 B.C.

    The original Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar about 587 B.C.

    The first Temple lasted only about 360 years.

    The Herodian Temple, as constructed later by Herod the Great, existed at the time of Jesus Christ. It was a continuation of the earlier reconstruction work done by Jews who had been allowed to return by the Persians after the Babylonian Captivity.

    The second Temple was destroyed by the Roman Army under Titus in 70 A.D. at the conclusion of the Jewish War.



    Lamentations 4:11-12 The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

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    In chapter 2, Nehemiah is prepared to give the king an answer as to how long he would be gone but we aren't privy to that information. As it was, it took 4 months for Nehemiah and his group to get from Susa, Capital of the Persian empire, King Artaxerxes palace to Jerusalem a total of 1000 miles.

    Another important point is that in addition to asking for permission to travel to Jerusalem and be absent for a long period of time...the granting of which in my opinion was due to God bestowing favor on Nehemiah in the king's eyes, Nehemiah asked the king for bodyguards to accompany him and for lumber from the king's own resources. THIS showed that Artaxerxes was funding the rebuilding of the walls, gates of Jerusalem and the house that Nehemiah was to live in while in Jerusalem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    more history: @Peter1469 you might be interested in this considering your posting of your topic 'Titus'

    https://focusonjerusalem.com/thefallofjerusalem.html


    A few Jerusalem facts:
    Jerusalem is located on a high ridge, consisting of 3 hills. Along the east of the city is the Kidron Valley (in which runs the Brook Kidron, including the Pool of Gihon), to the south is the Valley of Hinnom, to the west is the Valley of Gehenna. The Mount of Olives, where Jesus was arrested, is just to the east, across the Kidron Valley.

    Archaeological studies indicate that the city is very ancient, having been established perhaps more than 2,000 years before it was captured from the Jebusites by King David of Israel, about 1,000 B.C. Jerusalem had earlier been named Salem (Genesis 14:18) and Jebus (1 Chronicles 11:4). Salem meant peace.

    The city is mentioned throughout the Bible, over 600 times in the Old Testament, less in the New Testament.

    The first mention of the name Jerusalem is found in Joshua chapter 10.

    The first Temple was constructed by Solomon over a period of about 12 years, with completion being around 950 B.C.

    The original Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar about 587 B.C.

    The first Temple lasted only about 360 years.

    The Herodian Temple, as constructed later by Herod the Great, existed at the time of Jesus Christ. It was a continuation of the earlier reconstruction work done by Jews who had been allowed to return by the Persians after the Babylonian Captivity.

    The second Temple was destroyed by the Roman Army under Titus in 70 A.D. at the conclusion of the Jewish War.



    Lamentations 4:11-12 The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

    Here is a great book on the history of Jerusalem.

    Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel

    In addition to a very comprehensive history of Jerusalem Cline includes the theoretical gymnastics that modern Palestinians use to claim ties to Jerusalem and the land of Israel. He shows that it is clearly not true.

    "Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance. Cline guides us through the baffling, but always bloody, array of Jewish, Roman, Moslem, Crusader, Ottoman, Western, Arab, and Israeli fights for possession of such a symbolic prize in a manner that is both scholarly and engaging."
    And Eric Cline is unusual for a historian in that he writes in a very engaging style. The book will not bore you.
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    Two antagonists begin to play a small but relatively important part in this story. Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite. They were disturbed that someone else was coming to meddle in the repairs of Jerusalem. It was not to their purposes that this should be accomplished. I'd like to know more about these two so i'm doing a little research into their roles.

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    Back to Nehemiah. He was also a eunuch as was Daniel. That was the policy of the king's servants. Nehemiah was no exception. Also, Nehemiah had been cupbearer for quite awhile so that the king and queen considered him friend and Nehemiah was in a favored position of being able to speak to the king...of course when spoken to.

    Between the time that Nehemiah's brother visited him and the time of the conversation with the king was about 4 months also. Nehemiah did a lot of praying between those times. It also took @4 month to travel from Susa (Shushan) to Jerusalem.

    Nehemiah wasted no time when he got there. After three days he went out at night on his own donkey to travel the wall to see the state it was in. In some places the wall was in such a state of disrepair that there was no way to get the donkey through it so he had to walk. He was a accompanied by a few men but they didn't know what Nehemiah's intent was at that time either, although they may have guessed. I don't know. He left through the Valley gate and re-entered through the Valley gate.

    Within a short period of time, maybe next day, Nehemiah meets with the elders of the city and has this to say:

    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.”

    18I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me.“Let us start rebuilding,” they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.

    They are excited and they are behind him 100%.

    THis raises the suspicion of Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arab.

    They mocked and ridiculed the Jews for what they were attempting. These men did not know that Nehemiah had permission from the king nor that the king FUNDED the rebuilding and the home that Nehemiah would build to live in.

    And Nehemiah felt no need to tell them. He said to them: I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem. (words relevant to current events)
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    According to Nehemiah, when he and his escort arrived in Jerusalem, their return aroused the enmity of Sanballat and his allies. They were aggrieved[3] that the welfare of the Jews should be fostered.

    When Nehemiah actually disclosed his intention of building the walls of Jerusalem they laughed him to scorn, and said, "Will ye rebel against the
    king?"[4] Nehemiah resented their insinuation, and told them that they had no right in Jerusalem, nor any interest in its affairs.

    As soon as Sanballat and his associates heard that Nehemiah and the Jews were actually building the walls, they were angry; and Sanballat addressed the army of Samaria with a contemptuous reference to "these feeble Jews."
    [5]

    Tobiah appeased him by saying that a fox (or a jackal) climbing on the wall they were building would break it down.

    Nehemiah and his builders, the Jews, vigorously hurried the work, while Sanballat and his associates organized their forces to fight against Jerusalem.
    [6]

    Nehemiah prepared to meet the opposition and continued the work on the walls.

    Five different times Sanballat and his confederates challenged Nehemiah and the Jews to meet them for a parley in the plain of Ono.
    [7] Nehemiah was equal to the emergency and attended strictly to his work.

    Then Sanballat, with Jews in Jerusalem who were his confederates, attempted to entrap Nehemiah in the
    Temple; but the scheme failed.[8] Sanballat's Jewish allies, however, kept Sanballat and Tobiah informed as to the progress of the work in Jerusalem.

    With the hand of the Lord upon Nehemiah along with Nehemiah's far-sighted policy and his shrewdness, he was kept out of the hands of these neighbor-foes.

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    Tobiah was an Ammonite official[1] (possibly a governor of Ammon, possibly also of Jewish descent).[2]

    He incited the Ammonites to hinder Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem.[3][4]

    He, along with Sanballat the Horonite and Geshem the Arabian, resorted to a stratagem and, pretending to wish a conference with Nehemiah, invited him to meet them at Ono, Benjamin.

    Four times they made the request, and every time Nehemiah refused to come. Their object was to frighten him from completing the restoration of Jerusalem's walls and to do him some kind of harm.[5]

    Tobiah also had married a daughter of Shecaniah, a Judahite leader, and had given his son, Jehohanan, in marriage to the daughter of Meshullam, another Judahite leader,[6] for ostensibly political purposes.

    Because of this, he somehow gained enough of a Judahite coalition to use the Judahites themselves to send letters to Nehemiah, telling him of Tobiah's "good deeds" in an apparent attempt to weaken Nehemiah's resolve to keep Tobiah out of the rebuilding effort.

    Tobiah meanwhile sent intimidating letters directly to Nehemiah.[7]

    Later on in the book:

    Acquisition of the temple storerooms

    Additionally, Tobiah exploited his relationship with High Priest Eliashib, whose grandson had married the daughter of Sanballat.

    He persuaded Eliashib to lease the storerooms of the temple to him, so that he could conduct business in the newly constructed temple.

    These storerooms had been intended for the Israelites' grain offerings, incense, temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine and oil meant for the work of the temple and the temple workers themselves.

    Upon hearing this, Nehemiah, who was then in Babylon serving Artaxerxes I of Persia, requested permission to return to Judah.

    After returning, he promptly threw all of Tobiah's belongings out of the temple room, purified the room, and put back all that had originally been there.[8]
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    Rebuilding the Wall

    3 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.

    2 And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them[a] Zaccur the son of Imri built.

    3 The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

    4 And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.

    5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.[b]


    6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Gate of Yeshanah.[c] They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

    7 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of the governor of the province Beyond the River.

    8 Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

    9 Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of[d] Jerusalem, repaired.

    10 Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.

    11 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.

    12 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.


    13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits[e] of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.


    14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


    15 And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

    16 After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.

    17 After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.

    18 After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.

    19 Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.[f]

    20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired[g] another section from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

    21 After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.

    22 After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, repaired.

    23 After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house.
    24 After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and to the corner.

    25 Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh

    26 and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.

    27 After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.

    28 Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house.

    29 After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.

    30 After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.

    31 After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate,[h] and to the upper chamber of the corner.

    32 And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.

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    Each family repaired a section of wall and/or gate that was in front of or near their homes.

    Don't forget this name:

    Eliashib the high priest

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    At first glance you'd think that Chapter 3 is as bad as the Begat chapters. But there's a lot of information within these lists, especially if you have the inclination to do a little extra reading.

    Yes, nehemiah had initiated the task of rebuilding the walls (God initiated it in Nehemiah) But it was going to take a lot of people to complete it.

    This chapter provides information on the families or groups of jewish families/priests that repaired the walls that had been in disrepair for the last 140 years. The work began at the northeast corner and worked counterclockwise.

    The work was divided into 45 sections with the task being shared by 40 teams. I counted 39 on my own but i'm sure I probably missed someone in the counting. Just thought about this...40 teams. Forty has significance in the bible. It signifies trial and testing. Putting this wall up and repairing the gates and towers was certainly going to be a trial.


    This is just a link explaining the purpose of the gates in the wall.

    http://tentstakeministries.net/2016/...s-of-nehemiah/
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