Nehemiah 1:2-3
1:2 Hanani, who was one of my relatives,
along with some of the men from Judah, came to me,
and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem.
1:3 They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”
Nehemiah 4:22
4:22 At that time I instructed
the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.
Nehemiah 6:7
6:7 You have also established prophets to announce
in Jerusalem
on your behalf, ‘We have a king in Judah!’ Now the king is going to hear about these rumors. So come on! Let’s talk about this.”
Nehemiah 7:2
7:2 I then put in charge over Jerusalem
my brother Hanani and Hananiah
the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.
Nehemiah 7:6
7:6 These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.
Nehemiah 13:7
13:7 and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God.