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Updated: June 3, 2025
And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
He tells no one why he has come; but, worn out with the fatigue he has undergone, he goes quietly to the house of a friend, probably to that of his brother Hanani, and for three days he rests there.
"Ask not to see it, mem-sahib," swiftly interposed the ayah, "lest you turn with loathing from one who loves you!" Stella smiled, a quivering, piteous smile. "I should never do that, Hanani," she said. "But I do not need to see it. I know you love me. But do not out of your love for me tell me a lie! It is false comfort. It cannot help me." "But I have not lied, mem-sahib."
Can it be that Hanani, his brother, who had been one of Ezra's companions, had repeated it to him? Can it be that in order to cheer and encourage his brother when he undertook the difficult task of speaking to the king, he told him how Ezra was always repeating these words, and how he found them a sure refuge in time of need?
Nehemiah finds to his astonishment that it has come from Jerusalem, the city of cities, as he had been taught to believe it, and, to his still greater surprise, he finds amongst the travellers his long-lost brother Hanani.
"Not all, my mem-sahib," answered Hanani, in the soothing tone of one who instructs a child. "Hafiz knew the sahib in the days before Hanani came to Kurrumpore. Hafiz told a strange story of the sahib. He had married and had taken his wife to the mountains beyond Srinagar. And there an evil fate had overtaken him, and she the mem-sahib had returned alone." Hanani paused dramatically.
"His greatest reward is to let him serve us," she answered. "His love is the kind that needs to serve." "Which is the highest kind of love," said Everard holding her to him. "Do you know Hanani discovered that for me." She pressed close to his side. "Everard darling, why did you keep that secret so long?" "My dear!" he said, and was silent. "Well, won't you tell me?" she urged.
All is ready now, the preparations are ended, and Nehemiah, accompanied by his brother Hanani, and by a royal escort of soldiers, sets forth on his long journey. Jerusalem, the City of David how often he had dreamt of it, how earnestly he had longed to see it! Now, at last, his desire is to be granted.
It must have been some time later that there fell a soft step beside her; a veiled figure, bent and slow of movement, stooped over her. "Mem-sahib!" a low voice said. She looked up, startled and wondering. "Hanani!" she said. "Yes, it is Hanani." The woman's husky whisper came reassuringly in answer. "Have no fear, mem-sahib! You are safe here."
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