Nehemiah 1:1-3
Nehemiah Prays for the Sons of Israel
1The words of aNehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in bthe month Chislev, cin the twentieth year—and I was in dSusa the 1capitol— 2that aHanani, one of my brothers, and 1some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and remain from the captivity, and about Jerusalem. 3They said to me, “The remnant there in the aprovince who remain from the captivity are in great calamity and breproach, and cthe wall of Jerusalem is broken down and dits gates are burned with fire.”