167 | Completion despite threats (Nehemiah 6-7)

The year is around 445 BCE. Judah is a small province inside the Persian Empire, ruled by King Artaxerxes I from his palace at Susa. The Jewish people were deported to Babylon over a century before this. A first wave came home under Zerubbabel around ninety years earlier, but Jerusalem was still a wreck — no walls, burned gates, a thin population. Nehemiah was a Jewish man working as the king's personal cupbearer, a trusted position at the royal court. He got permission from Artaxerxes to go back to Jerusalem and fix it.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fwhyc6F89tk03gny2PexCID0pGmXdt3n/view?usp=sharing