He was a prophet during the time of Persian rule over Judea who returned to Jerusalem from the exile into Babylon many years earlier to finish building the wall around the city. The Work had been started under Zerubbabel and Ezra years earlier but discouragement, poverty and adversity from the current inhabitants halted the work. Nehemiah came and finished the work on the wall in 52 days in spite of threats, accusations of treason and assassination attempts
Nehemiah was a prophet in the old testament.
No
Haggai and Zechariah were prophets at the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. Ezra 5:1 Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
No, Isaiah was a prophet. You may be thinking of Nehemiah. He was a cup bearer to King Artaxerxes the Persian King where Nehemiah and his countrymen were in exile. See Nehemiah 2:1.
Nehemiah, as he was the King's cupbearer
he was called and appointed by God for a divine work
There were three Nehemiah's in the Bible. The most notable one was the prophet Nehemiah who served the Persian King Artaxerxes. This Nehemiah was the Son of Hacaliah, and brother of Hanani. For a full discussion on Nehemiah, see the attached link:
As the Israelites had been taken into slavery by the Babylonians years earlier, just as the prophet Jeremiah said it would happen for failing to listen to God. The books of Ezra, Esther, Nehemiah were written when captive in Babylon, or shortly after they were released by Darius.
In the Bible, it is mentioned that Nehemiah fasted and prayed for an unspecified period of time while he mourned and sought guidance on how to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The duration of his fast is not explicitly stated in the text.
The major prophets in the bible are Isaiah, Daniel, Samuel, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Note that Samuel is not considered a "major prophet" by most scholars and Daniel is not part of the Major Prophet books in the Hebrew Bible.
Nehemiah 1:1 "The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah..."
Nehemiah wrote the Old Testament book of Nehemiah.