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In most modern Bibles, Ezra - Nehemiah is two separate books, but that division happened long after it was written. It was originally a unified work written by a single author who lived long after the Babylonians’ invasion of Jerusalem and the exile (2 Kgs. 24-25 ). Ezra - Nehemiah picks up some fifty years later and tells of the return of ...
Ezra-Nehemiah. This is an in-depth study of the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, which develops the story of Israel's return from exile in 539 BC under the leadership of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. This study is 6 hours long (recorded in 2020). This is worth 2 Bible CEUs. Ezra-Nehemiah Commentary (1.48 MB)
1) Zerubbabel led the first wave of Jewish exiles to return in 536 B.C. (Ezra 1-6) (Big gap of 57 years - Esther's time) In 535 B.C. the construction of the temple began. In Feb 18, 516 B.C. the temple was completed and dedicated. 2) Ezra led the second in 455 B.C. (Ezra 7-10) Ezra left with about 1500 men and their families in mid-March 455 B.C.
gave four messages. The temple was completed in Adar (February–March) of 515—21 years after the work started in 536, and 4 1/2 years after Haggai began his prophesying. This was 70 1/2 years after the temple had been destroyed on. the fourteenth day of the first month. the exiles celebrated the Passover August 12,586.
- Surveying The Scene
- Nehemiah
- Building The Wall
- Ezra’s Decrees
- The Pocket
- The Second Temple
- No More Prophecy
Ezra did not come with the original group of returnees who accompanied Zerubbabel when the decree by Cyrus was first announced that the Jews could return to their land and build their Temple (Ezra 1:1-3). As the primary disciple of Baruch the son of Neriah (who had been the primary disciple of Jeremiah), he remained by the side of his great teacher...
Enter the second man to turn the situation around: Nehemiah. He was a prominent Jew who rose to very high office under the Persian emperor Darius. Hearing about the situation, he approached the king with a very brazen proposition. He asked to be allowed to take a leave of absence to help his brethren get settled and build the Temple. Then he would ...
Although decades earlier the walls of Jerusalem had been breached by the Babylonians, in effect making the city indefensible, many parts of the wall still stood. Tactically, Nehemiah realized that the first task was to fill in the gaps and create one continuous wall (Nehemiah 2:17). He organized the work right away. Quickly, the downtrodden Jews jo...
In order to be successful on any front the Jewish people had to be strengthened internally. One of the first measures took Ezra was to make an ultimatum forcing all Jewish men to divorce their non-Jewish wives or at least have the women convert. Whoever refused would be excluded from the community. For the matter of spiritual survival no compromise...
Within a short five year span, Ezra and Nehemiah together turned the situation around. Nevertheless, life for the start-up Jewish community remained precarious. The Persian Empire was massive. It stretched from India in the east to the Sahara Desert (modern day Libya) in the west. In the north it reached to the Black Sea and the Greek Islands. It e...
Ezra set about building the Second Temple, but lacked the funds to give it the physical magnificence of its predecessor. On the day it was dedicated those who remembered the First Temple wept (Ezra3:12), because it was such a far cry from its predecessor. The First Temple was made of gold and other precious metals. Its stones were magnificent marbl...
The Second Temple lacked spiritual magnificence as well. It was missing, for instance, the great golden menorah-candelabra that Moses had made. It had no Ark and no Tablets of the Ten Commandments. Furthermore, there was no more prophecy in the Second Temple era, the Talmud says (Sotah48b). We have to realize that for a people who were accustomed t...
Ezra–Nehemiah is made up of three stories: (1) the account of the initial return and rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1–6); (2) the story of Ezra's mission (Ezra 7–10 and Nehemiah 8); (3) and the story of Nehemiah, interrupted by a collection of miscellaneous lists and part of the story of Ezra. [2]: 313. Ezra 1 – 6.
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Sep 7, 2021 · The reason he says there are only 22 books, while our modern Bibles have 39 books in the Old Testament, is that the old scrolls did not divide 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations, or any of the minor prophets (Amos through Malachi) into separate books.
