Nehemiah 9

Nehemiah 9
A page containing the Latin text of Nehemiah 7:61–11:11 in the Codex Gigas, believed to be created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic).
BookBook of Nehemiah
CategoryKetuvim
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part16

Nehemiah 9 is the ninth chapter of the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible,[1] or the 19th chapter of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah as one book.[2] Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles,[3] but modern scholars generally accept that a compiler from the 5th century BCE (the so-called "Chronicler") is the final author of these books.[4] This chapter and the previous one focus mainly on Ezra; with this chapter recording Ezra's prayer of repentance for the sake of the people (parallel to Ezra 910).[5]

  1. ^ Halley 1965, p. 236.
  2. ^ Grabbe 2003, p. 313.
  3. ^ Babylonian Talmud Baba Bathra 15a, apud Fensham 1982, p. 2
  4. ^ Fensham 1982, pp. 2–4.
  5. ^ Grabbe 2003, pp. 324–325.