These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers,

Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews before his associates and the army

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that...

So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul. When...

At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever ent