עזרא EZRA and נחמיה NEḤEMYAH rebuilt institutions of עם ישראל AM YISRAʾEL in ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM: public teaching of התורה HAʾTORA, communal government and the city wall. Return did not restore sovereignty. Even after rebuilding, the assembly described living in its own homeland under foreign kings who controlled its produce and people.1
The sequence below follows the received-year framework for their missions and the books' narrative order. The linked articles distinguish explicit dates from reconstructed years and explain the missing years between סדר עולם SEDER OLAM and contemporary historians.2
עזרא EZRA's return to ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM
3413-01-01Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
עזרא EZRA began the journey from בבל BAVEL to ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM.
3413-01-01: עזרא EZRA began the journey from בבל BAVEL to ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM.3
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3413-01-12Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
עזרא EZRA's company left the Ahava encampment after gathering and fasting for protection on the road.
3413-01-12: עזרא EZRA's company left the Ahava encampment after gathering and fasting for protection on the road.4
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3413-05-01Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
עזרא EZRA reached ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM, completing the journey begun four months earlier.
3413-05-01: עזרא EZRA reached ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM, completing the journey begun four months earlier.5
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The assembly and inquiry
3414-09-20Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
עזרא EZRA confronted the assembled יהודים YEHUDIM over marriages to foreign wives.
3414-09-20: עזרא EZRA confronted the assembled יהודים YEHUDIM over marriages to foreign wives. The summons threatened absentees with confiscation and exclusion from the community.6
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3414-10-01Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
עזרא EZRA and selected family heads began examining the marriages case by case.
3414-10-01: עזרא EZRA and selected family heads began examining the marriages case by case.7
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3414-01-01Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
The inquiry into the marriages was completed.
3414-01-01: The inquiry into the marriages was completed. This administrative endpoint does not establish that intermarriage itself ceased.8
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Rebuilding and covenant renewal
3426-05-04Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
נחמיה NEḤEMYAH began rebuilding the walls of ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM.
3426-05-04: נחמיה NEḤEMYAH began rebuilding the walls of ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM.9
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3426-06-25Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
נחמיה NEḤEMYAH completed the wall of ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM after fifty-two days of rebuilding.
3426-06-25: נחמיה NEḤEMYAH completed the wall of ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM after fifty-two days of rebuilding.10
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3427-07-01Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
עזרא EZRA read התורה HAʾTORA publicly before men, women and all who could understand.
3427-07-01: עזרא EZRA read התורה HAʾTORA publicly before men, women and all who could understand. The restored city became a gathering place for instruction, not merely a fortified settlement.11
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3427-07-24Precision: day · Basis: not-assessed
יהודים YEHUDIM assembled for fasting, confession and public reading.
3427-07-24: יהודים YEHUDIM assembled for fasting, confession and public reading. Their account of national failure and survival led into a written covenant.12
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