--- title: "Nehemiah 1 - Study King James Bible with scofields reference notes" description: "Read Nehemiah 1 with scofields reference notes commentary. 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2 That Hana" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/scofields-reference-notes/nehemiah/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/nehemiah/1)[ Commentary](/study/nehemiah/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/nehemiah/1) Audio 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2 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. 3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province *are* in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also *is* broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4 ¶ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned *certain* days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, 5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned. 7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. 8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, *If* ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: 9 But *if* ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, *yet* will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. 10 Now these *are* thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. 11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer. [Ezra 10](/study/ezra/10) [Nehemiah 2](/study/nehemiah/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 SCOFIELD REFERENCE NOTES (Old Scofield 1917 Edition) The Book of Nehemiah Fourteen years after the return of Ezra to Jerusalem, Nehemiah led up a company (B.C. 444) and restored the walls and the civil authority. Of those events this book is the record. It is in eight divisions: I. The journey to Jerusalem, [Nehemiah 1:1-2](/kjv/nehemiah/1/1-2); II. The building of the wall, [Nehemiah 3:1-6](/kjv/nehemiah/3/1-6). III. The census, [Nehemiah 7:1-73](/kjv/nehemiah/7/1-73). IV. The revival, [Nehemiah 8:1-11](/kjv/nehemiah/8/1-11). V. The census of the priests and Levites, [Nehemiah 12:1-26](/kjv/nehemiah/12/1-26). VI. Dedication of the wall, [Nehemiah 12:27-43](/kjv/nehemiah/12/27-43). VII. Restoration of the temple worship, [Nehemiah 12:44-47](/kjv/nehemiah/12/44-47). VIII. The legal order restored, [Nehemiah 13:1-31](/kjv/nehemiah/13/1-31). The moral state of the time is disclosed by the prophet Malachi. This book affords many instances of individual faith acting on the written word (e.g. [Nehemiah 1:8](/kjv/nehemiah/1/8); [Nehemiah 1:9](/kjv/nehemiah/1/9); [Nehemiah 13:1](/kjv/nehemiah/13/1)). It is the principle of [2 Timothy 2:0](/kjv/2-timothy/2/0). The events recorded in Nehemiah cover a period of 11 years (Ussher). **Chisleu** i.e. December. **Shushan** Or, Susa, ancient capital of Persia. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/scofields-reference-notes/nehemiah/1#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/scofields-reference-notes/nehemiah/1#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/scofields-reference-notes/nehemiah/1","name":"Nehemiah 1 - Study King James Bible with scofields reference notes","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/scofields-reference-notes/nehemiah/1#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Nehemiah 1 with scofields reference notes commentary. 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. 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