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,

Nehemiah Sent to Judah

1 In the month of Nisan, in the ^stwentieth year of King ^tArtaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.