Book of Ezra
The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and Hebrew Tanach. This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian captivity. It was at one time included in the book of Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the Vulgate version as I and II Esdras. It consists of two principal divisions:- The history of the first return of exiles, in the first year of Cyrus the Great (B.C. 536), till the completion and dedication of the new temple, in the sixth year of Darius Hystapes (B.C. 515), ch. 1-6. From the close of the sixth to the opening of the seventh chapter there is a blank in the history of about sixty years.
- The history of the second return under Ezra, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and of the events that took place at Jerusalem after Ezra's arrival there (7-10).
The book thus contains memorabilia connected with the Jews, from the decree of Cyrus (B.C. 536) to the reformation by Ezra (B.C. 456), extending over a period of about eighty years.
There is no quotation from this book in the New Testament.
Ezra was probably the author of this book, at least of the greater part of it (comp. 7:27, 28; 8:1, etc.), as he was also of the Books of Chronicles, the close of which forms the opening passage of Ezra.
Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed
These heavy roads eat up a lot of extra
of a doze.
"You ought to know, with your own car--and gas costing what
musta been asleep."
"I guess you musta been, all right," Bud grunted. "Do you want
that's what I was asking?"
The two consulted together, and finally told Bud to stop at the
to a drug store and buy a couple of thermos bottles, and after
filled with black coffee, and have lunch put up for six people.
his own breakfast at the counter in the restaurant while.
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