Book of Nehemiah
Nehemiah is the focal figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which portrays his work in reconstructing Jerusalem during the Second Temple time frame. He was legislative head of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465-424 BC).
Most researchers accept Nehemiah was a genuinely recorded figure and that the Nehemiah Memoir, a name given by researchers to specific segments of the book written in the primary individual, is generally solid.
In the twentieth year of Artaxerxes I - 445 or 444 BC,Nehemiah was cup-carrier to the lord. Discovering that the leftover of Jews in Judah were in trouble and that the dividers of Jerusalem were separated, he asked the lord for authorization to return and reconstruct the city, around 20 years after Ezra's appearance in Jerusalem in 468 BC.Artaxerxes sent him to Judah as legislative head of the area with a mission to modify, letters making sense of his help for the endeavor, and arrangement for lumber from the ruler's forest.Once there, Nehemiah resisted the resistance of Judah's foes on all sides-Samaritans, Ammonites, Arabs and Philistines-and revamped the dividers in the span of 52 days, from the Sheep Gate in the North, the Hananeel Tower at the North West corner, the Fish Gate in the West, the Furnaces Tower at the Temple Mount's South West corner, the Dung Gate in the South, the East Gate and the door underneath the Golden Gate in the East.