Nehemiah 1:2

That Chanani, one of my achim, + 1:2 See 7:2 came, he and certain men, from Yehudah; and I asked them concerning the remnant of the Yehudim that had survived the Exile, + 1:2 the Golus and concerning Yerushalayim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

In Context

1The Divrei Nechemyah ben Chakhalyah. And it came to pass in the month Kislev, in the twentieth year, + 1:1 i.e., 445 B.C.E. as I was in Shushan the capital, + 1:1 of Persia

3And they said unto me, The remnant that have survived the Exile + 1:3 the Golus there in the province are in ra'ah gedolah and reproach; the Chomat Yerushalayim also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with eish.

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Cross References

2 Kings 24:14And he carried away into the Golus all Yerushalayim, and all the sarim, and all the gibborei hachayil, even ten thousand Golus captives, and all the charash and masger (smiths, artisans); none remained, except the dalat am ha'aretz (poor people of the land).

Ezra 9:8And now for a little space grace hath been shown from Hashem Eloheinu, to leave us to escape a she'ar (remnant), and to give us a peg in his Makom Kodesh, that Eloheinu may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

Nehemiah 7:2That I gave my brother Chanani, along with Chananyah (the commander of the citadel), charge over Yerushalayim, for he was an ish emes, and feared HaElohim more than many.

Psalms 137:5If I forget thee, O Yerushalayim, 1 let my yamin (right hand) forget. + 137:5 i.e., have paralysis 1

Ezekiel 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the Goyim where they shall be carried captive, how I have known + 6:9 a cuckoldʼs hurt by the lev hazoneh of them which turned away from Me, and by their einayot hazonot which went a-whoring after their gillulim; they shall lothe themselves for the ra'ot (evils) which they have committed in all their to'avot.

Ezekiel 24:26That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear the news + 24:26 of the fall of Jerusalem with thine oznayim?

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 1:2-5

Nehemiah This book continues the history of the children of the captivity, the poor Jews, that had lately returned out of Babylon to their own land. At this time not only the Persian monarchy flourished in great pomp and power, but Greece and Rome began to be very great and to make a figure. Of the affairs of those high and mighty states we have authentic accounts extant; but the sacred and inspired history takes cognizance only of the state of the Jews, and makes no mention of other nations but as the Israel of… Read the whole commentary →

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