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,

The People Who Sealed the Covenant

1 “On the seals are the names of¹ Nehemiah the ^jgovernor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah,

26 These were in the days of ^rJoiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ^sgovernor and of ^tEzra, the priest and scribe.

47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions ^zfor the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.