Creation year 3478 · Nisan calendar year 1032 · Historical date 445 BC · working identification · Nehemiah

Nehemiah receives authority to rebuild

Nehemiah receives authority in Nisan of Artaxerxes’s twentieth year. Under the Artaxerxes I identification, the event falls in 445 BC, Nisan year 1032, and Creation year 3478.

King James Version

Nehemiah 2:1, 5–8

And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him. And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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