Nehemiah 1:1-2

Evangelical Heritage Version

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1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah.

The Problem

In the month of Kislev of the twentieth year, I was in Susa, the citadel.^{[a] 2} Hanani, one of my brothers,^[b] came to me with men from Judah. I asked them about the remnant of the Jews, who had survived the captivity and had escaped from it, and about Jerusalem.