<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">These are the words of Nehemiah<n id="2" /> son of Hacaliah:p> <p class="bodytext">It so happened that in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year,<n id="3" /> I was in Susa<n id="4" /> the citadel.

I then put in charge over Jerusalem<n id="1" /> my brother Hanani and Hananiah<n id="2" /> the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.

and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king&#8217;s nature preserve,<n id="1" /> so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall<n id="2" /> and for the house to which I go.&#8221; So the king granted me these requests,<n id="3" /> for the good hand of my God was on me.