Nehemiah 1:1-2

New Century Version

Nehemiah’s Prayer

1 These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah.

In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year,^[a] I, Nehemiah, was in the capital city of Susa. ² One of my brothers named Hanani came with some other men from Judah. I asked them about Jerusalem and the Jewish people who lived through the captivity.