NEHEMIAH : Nehemiah, the Jewish cupbearer for King Artaxerxes of
Persia, returned to Jerusalem and led the rebuilding of the city
wall. He told of Ezra, the Priest, reading the law of God to the
people of Jerusalem. Nehemiah also told of the Jews pledging not
to marry non-Jewish people, to honor the Sabbath, to refrain from
working the land and to cancel debts between Jews every seventh
year (Nehemiah 10: 31), to give the oldest son to God (i.e. to
the priests), and to bring a tithe of all produced to the Levites
(Nehemiah 10: 37) for the use of the Temple and priests.