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’s Generosity

14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their ^bgovernor in the land of Judah, from the ^ctwentieth year to the ^dthirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.