Nehemiah’s Grief for the Exiles

1 The words of ^(A)Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

Now it happened in ^(B)the month Chislev, ^(C)in the twentieth year, while I was in ^(D)Susa the ^[a]capitol,

² that ^(A)Hanani, one of my brothers, ^[a]and some men from Judah came; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped ^[b]and had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.