Nehemiah’s Prayer

1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah:

In the month of Kislev^(A) in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,^(B)

² Hanani,^(A) one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant^(B) that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.