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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEHEMIAH (Heb. for " Yah[weh] comforts ")  , See also:governor of See also:Judaea under See also:Artaxerxes (apparently A . Longimanus, 465—424 B.C.) . The See also:book of See also:Nehemiah is really See also:part of the same See also:work with the book of See also:Ezra, though it embodies certain See also:memoirs of Nehemiah in which he writes in the first See also:person . Apart from what is related in this book we possess little See also:information about Nehemiah . The hymn of praise by See also:Ben Sira (See also:Ecclesiasticus xlix . 13) extols his fame for rebuilding the desolate See also:city of See also:Jerusalem and for raising up fresh homes for the downtrodden See also:people . According to other traditions he restored the See also:temple-service and founded a collection of See also:historical documents (2 See also:Mace. i . 18-36, ii . 13) . See further EZRA AND NEHEMIAH (Books), See also:JEWS: See also:History §§ 21 seq .

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