Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
Nehemiah Returns to the King
Event · 434 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes” Nehemiah 13:6
- “that is, twelve years” Nehemiah 5:14
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 434 BC
- Daniel’s seventy weeks, counted from Nehemiah 2:1. Ussher: 442 BC
- “Nehemias, when he had governed Judea 12 years”
“In the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king” (Nehemiah 13:6), 434 BC, twelve years after he came (5:14). Ussher’s is 442 BC.
Where the year isn’t Ussher’s, the text sets it, and the note says how. Ussher’s years and sentences are from his Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
