Nehemiah 1:1-2

Common English Bible

Loss of Jerusalem

1 These are the words of Nehemiah, Hacaliah’s son.

In the month of Kislev,^[a] in the twentieth year,^[b] while I was in the fortress city of Susa, ² Hanani, one of my brothers, came with some other men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.