Nehemiah

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Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah, the king's cupbearer in Shushan the palace; when Hanani told him the wall of Jerusalem was broken down, he sat down and wept, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. In the month Nisan the king asked, 'For what dost thou make request?' and he prayed, then asked to go and build. He viewed the walls by night, and said, 'Let us rise up and build'. Sanballat and Tobiah laughed; 'if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall'. Half wrought and half held the spears; every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. 'I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down.' The wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. He was governor twelve years and ate not the bread of the governor; he made the nobles restore the usury; Ezra read the law, and he said, 'the joy of the LORD is your strength'.

Confirmed by history: In the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (Neh 2:1), 445 BC, and again after his two and thirtieth year (Neh 13:6), 433 BC; Artaxerxes I is known from history (465–424 BC).