The theme of exile,
so foundational to the work of Nehemiah, remains foundational in the New Testament dispensation. Peter terms his readers as exiles
(1 Peter 1:1; 1 Peter 2:11), persons displaced into a hostile environment against their will and so strangers in a strange land. See also Hebrews 11:13–16; Philippians 3:20. Exiles long for the restoration of Paradise, when we shall live with God again in harmony restored (Revelation 21:3–4). More, New Testament exiles
may be confident that the Lord God most certainly will gather
his scattered people to Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1–5).
2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.