Nehemiah 1:1-3

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.

³ They said to me, “The survivors from the captivity who are there in the province are in great misery and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned.”