Although some scholars disagree, Nehemiah is said to have been a Persian eunuch. He was appointed as governor of Judah and played a major part in the rebuilding of Jerusalem, and in teaching Judaism to the returning Jews.
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...
God used the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar to sack Jerusalem ca. 605-586BC and take them captive to Babylon for 70 years because they had not given the land its yearly Sabbatical rest for 490...
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, this is the definition of a eunuch: A castrated man employed as a harem attendant or as a functionary in certain Asian courts. A...
He was the cupbearer for the Emperor of Persia (Medo-Persia). This is in some ways a minor official, but had great power, and was a close confident to the emperor. Since the cupbearer protected the...