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 And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in ^xSusa the citadel, which is in the province of ^yElam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal.