Nehemiah 1:1-2
1599 Geneva Bible
Nehemiah
1 4 Nehemiah bewaileth the calamity of Jerusalem. 5 He confesseth the sins of the people, and praiseth God for them.
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. In the month [a]Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in the palace of Shushan,
2 Came Hanani, one of my [b]brethren, he and the men of Judah, and I asked them concerning the Jews that were delivered, which were of the residue of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
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- Nehemiah 1:1 Which containeth part of November and part of December, and was their ninth month.
- Nehemiah 1:2 A Jew as I was.
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