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Nehemiah 1,2

All quotes are from the NIV unless otherwise noted This book should be the next to the last book of the Hebrews Scriptures. It was written about two years before the book of Malachi so about 432 before the birth of Christ. Different people or groups have different timelines based on the birth of Christ when did it happen?  There is a growing number of people who believe that Christ was born in September of three BC because of the alignment of the stars in that year. Some believe it happened in 5 BC because of a slight error when the original calendar was put together in the dark ages. Be that as it may remember it was the next to the last book written.  1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. “Chislev.” The ninth month