nehemiah rebuilt the walls of jerusalem in the bible.
nehemiah rebuilt the walls of jerusalem in the bible.
who rebuilt the walls of jerusalem in the bible?
nehemiah
according to nehemiah, when he and his escort arrived in jerusalem, their return aroused the enmity of sanballat and his allies. they were aggrieved 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?" 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. in his reforms, so effectively carried out, he discovered that one of the grandsons of the current high priest eliashib had married a daughter of this sanballat, and was thus son-in-law of the chief enemy of the jews. nehemiah also found that eliashib had leased the storerooms of the temple to tobiah, thus depriving the levites of their share of the offerings in nehemiah's absence. the high priest (and/or possibly his son jehoida and the unnamed grandson) was driven out of jerusalem on the ground that he had defiled the priesthood ().
sanballat the horonite
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the walls of jerusalem () surround the old city of jerusalem (approx. 1 km²). in 1535, when jerusalem was part of the ottoman empire, sultan suleiman i ordered the ruined city walls to be rebuilt. the work took some four years, between 1537 and 1541.









































the length of the walls is 4,018 meters (2.4966 mi), their average height is 12 meters (39.37 feet) and the average thickness is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet). the walls contain 34 watchtowers and seven main gates open for traffic, with two minor gates reopened by archaeologists.
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