Title: The Book of Nehemiah
Subtitle: EZRA + NEHEMIAH - Written originally as one book, these two books describe the return of the Jewish exiles after more than a half-century of bondage in Babylon, and the subsequent restoration of Jerusalem, its Temple and it walls. Ezra and Nehemiah are of special importance, since they contain nearly all of the direct information known of the post-Exilic period of Hebrew history.
Author: Nehemiah

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The Book of Nehemiah

EZRA + NEHEMIAH - Written originally as one book, these two books describe the return of the Jewish exiles after more than a half-century of bondage in Babylon, and the subsequent restoration of Jerusalem, its Temple and it walls. Ezra and Nehemiah are of special importance, since they contain nearly all of the direct information known of the post-Exilic period of Hebrew history.

Author: Nehemiah

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

kjv@Nehemiah:1 Nehemiah's Prayer
kjv@Nehemiah:2:1-10 Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem
kjv@Nehemiah:2:11-20 Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem's Walls
kjv@Nehemiah:3 Builders of the Wall
kjv@Nehemiah:4 Opposition to the Rebuilding
kjv@Nehemiah:5 Nehemiah Helps the Poor
kjv@Nehemiah:6:1-14 Further Opposition to the Rebuilding
kjv@Nehemiah:6:15-7:3 The Completion of the Wall
kjv@Nehemiah:7:4-73 The List of the Exiles Who Returned
kjv@Nehemiah:8 Ezra: Reads the Law
kjv@Nehemiah:9:1-37 The Israelites Confess Their Sins
kjv@Nehemiah:9:38-10:39 The Agreement of the People
kjv@Nehemiah:11 The New Residents of Jerusalem
kjv@Nehemiah:12:1-26 Priests and Levites
kjv@Nehemiah:12:27-47 Dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem
kjv@Nehemiah:13 Nehemiah's Final Reforms

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Nehemiah, Book of @ The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is spoken of in the third person (ch. 8; 9; 10). It is supposed that these portions may have been written by Ezra; of this, however, there is no distinct evidence. These portions had their place assigned them in the book, there can be no doubt, by Nehemiah. He was the responsible author of the whole book, with the exception of ch. 12:11-22, 23. The date at which the book was written was probably about B.C. 431-430, when Nehemiah had returned the second time to Jerusalem after his visit to Persia. The book, which may historically be regarded as a continuation of the book of Ezra, consists of four parts.

(1.) An account of the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem, and of the register Nehemiah had found of those who had returned from Babylon (ch. 1-7).

(2.) An account of the state of religion among the Jews during this time (8-10).

(3.) Increase of the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the census of the adult male population, and names of the chiefs, together with lists of priests and Levites (11-12:1-26).

(4.) Dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the arrangement of the temple officers, and the reforms carried out by Nehemiah (12:27-ch. 13). This book closes the history of the Old Testament. Malachi the prophet was contemporary with Nehemiah.

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