Creation year 3465 · Nisan calendar year 1019 · Historical date 458 BC · working identification · Ezra
Ezra’s journey is explicitly dated from the first day of the first month to the first day of the fifth month in Artaxerxes’s seventh year. Under the Artaxerxes I identification, this is Nisan year 1019 and Creation year 3465.
King James Version
“And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”
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