Nehemiah 1:1-2

Revised Standard Version

Nehemiah Prays for His People

1 The words of Nehemi′ah the son of Hacali′ah.

Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital, ² that Hana′ni, one of my brethren, came with certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that survived, who had escaped exile, and concerning Jerusalem.