Albert Barnes Commentary Nehemiah 2:3

"And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers` sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?" — Nehemiah 2:3 (ASV)

The city ... of my fathers’ sepulchres — We may conclude from this that Nehemiah was of the tribe of Judah, as Eusebius and Jerome say that he was.