Verse 2
2. Hanani, one of my brethren Called emphatically his own brother in Nehemiah 7:2.
I asked them Hence it does not seem that they were sent, as some suggest, expressly to inform Nehemiah of the sad state of things at Jerusalem.
Jews that had escaped Those that had survived all the calamities and dangers to which the new community at Jerusalem had been exposed.
Which were left of the captivity Or, which remained. This further defines the preceding clause, as meaning those returned exiles who were still to be found in Judea; those who remained out of multitudes that had fallen.
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