“Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 9 contains 38 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.