Ne 7:1–3 Now when the wall had been built… I gave my brother Hanani charge over Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel… And I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot while the gatekeepers are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors.” The “bars of your gates” that Yahweh had strengthened are possibly a mention of the same gates that Nehemiah wrote about here: Add to this the LXX’s view that the psalm is from the time of Haggai and Zecheriah and it becomes clear that the psalm’s final form is likely a product of the early post-exilic period. There is only one point in Israel’s OT history when they had been outcasts from their land, gathered back to it, and built Jerusalem and that’s the return from Babylon.
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