9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of ^wSusa, that is, the Elamites,

Report from Jerusalem

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the ^atwentieth year, as I was in ^bSusa the citadel,

2 in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in ^bSusa, the citadel,