Nehemiah 1:1

The words of Nehemiah Or, the acts, as the Hebrew word here used often signifies; that is, the things which Nehemiah did. In the month Chisleu Which answers to part of our November and December. In the twentieth year Namely, of the reign of Artaxerxes. As I was in Shushan the palace In the region of Elimais, where the Persian kings kept their court in the winter, and which, from its pleasant and beautiful situation, was called by heathen writers Susa, which signifies a lily, or, as Athenaeus says, a rose.