The walls surrounding Jerusalem were planned and built by Nehemiah and Ezra. They are 2.4966 miles long, 39.37 feet high and surround the old city of Jerusalem. The average thickness of the walls is 8.2 feet. Thirty-four watchtowers and eight gates are part of the structure.
According to The Bible, It says, 35 times (7x5), that Nehemiah repaired the wall. Hezekiahâ??s original wall was very strong, being five meters (16.4 ft.) wide entirely around the city. The entire city then consisted of about 135 acres.
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The average thickness of Nehemiah's wall around Jerusalem was about 2.5 meters thick. The walls were also nearly 40 feet high.
The walls Nehemiah had to build were about two miles in length. The 42 sections were built by 41 different building crews.
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Nehemiah built the wall 542 B.C
The walls surrounding the old city of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah supervised the building of the city walls. The second Temple, built by many of the people at roughly the same time, took some five years to build.
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Jerusalem's walls.
The word 'Nehemiah' is a Hebrew word. It means 'Comfort of the Lord'. In the bible, Nehemiah was a leader who helped to rebuild the walls of Jerusalam.
Nehemiah (Nehemiah, chapters 1 to 3).See also the Related Link.More about the Book of Nehemiah
AnswerThe best answer is actually from a quote by Josephus which states the circumference of Jerusalem in his day as 33 stadia, which equals 4.5 English miles. That would make the area within the walls of Jerusalem about 960 acres, 1.5 sq mi. Many archeologists believe that the walls of Jerusalem were about the same in both Nehemiah's day and Jesus' day.
It took Nehemiah 52 days to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah 6:15 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) 15 The wall was completed (A) in 52 days, on the twenty-fifth day of the month Ellul. (B)
Sanballat tried to stop the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.