Gustave Doré 1832 – 1883
Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem's Walls
engraving — 1865
This work is linked to Nehemiah 2:13
Nehemiah 2 - Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. 2 Wherefore the king said un
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Nehemiah was cup-bearer at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes when the Jews lived in exile. He had learned that the group that had returned to Jerusalem with the priest Ezra suffered from hardship and that the city walls had been destroyed.
Nehemiah was then granted permission by the king to travel to Jerusalem in order to rebuild the city. Doré here shows him on horseback, inspecting the smouldering walls by night.
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