{"id":364,"date":"2021-01-04T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:17:43","slug":"jerusalem-during-the-later-old-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/jerusalem-during-the-later-old-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem during the Later Old Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Babylonians destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the Temple of the Lord in 586 B.C. and exiled many Judeans to Babylon (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). Several decades later (539 B.C.), King Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon and declared that the Judean exiles were free to return to Judah and rebuild the Temple (2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra 1:1-4). A small portion of the exiles did return and rebuild the Temple (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65), but it wasn&#8217;t until about 445 B.C. that they rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem under the leadership of Nehemiah. The work of rebuilding Jerusalem&#8217;s walls is recorded in Nehemiah 3, and it appears that the rebuilt walls did not include the western hill that had been enclosed under Hezekiah&#8217;s leadership hundreds of years earlier. The walls surrounding that area were rebuilt during the Maccabean era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2008\" height=\"2548\" src=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3.jpg 2008w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3-768x975.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3-1210x1536.jpg 1210w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3-1614x2048.jpg 1614w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/JerusalemOTLate-3-1568x1990.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2008px) 100vw, 2008px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/images\/hi-res\/JerusalemOTLate_high.jpg\">download hi-res file<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"photolauncher\" style=\"display:none;\" mapbasename=\"JerusalemOTLate\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Babylonians destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the Temple of the Lord in 586 B.C. and exiled many Judeans to Babylon (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). Several decades later (539 B.C.), King Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon and declared that the Judean exiles were free to return to Judah and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerusalem","category-maccabeanperiod","category-oldtestament","category-persianperiod","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbsXLW-5S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}