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Nehemiah 1:1

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

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Jerusalem was Judah’s historic covenant city, whose ruined walls and vulnerable population prompted Nehemiah’s concern. Susa was a principal royal residence of the Persian Empire, where Nehemiah served in exile and from which God would providentially open a way for Jerusalem’s restoration.

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Nehemiah 1:1 mentions Jerusalem and Susa.

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