1. Nehemiah 1:1–11 (ESV)
  2. Structure and outline

The connection of Nehemiah 1 to Nehemiah 2:1–8

Nehemiah 1:1–11 (ESV)

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,

Nehemiah 2:1–8 provides God’s answer to the two petitions of Nehemiah’s prayer.

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