Category: <span>Ezra with Select Psalms</span>

When Ezra returned to Jerusalem, the author described him as a man skilled in the law of Moses (Ezra 7:6). In addition, he said, “Ezra had determined in his heart…

Commentary Ezra with Select Psalms Old Testament

The exiles, with the permission and support of the Persian kings, returned to the Promised Land in phases. In accord with his predecessors Cyrus and Darius, Artaxerxes displayed great benevolence…

Commentary Ezra with Select Psalms Old Testament

The leaders of the returned exiles wished to provide them with a temple-centered theological vision. For Ezra, rebuilding of the temple so naturally accorded with rebuilding the whole of Jerusalem…

Commentary Ezra with Select Psalms Old Testament

In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim, the prophet Jeremiah announced that the Babylonian empire would soon overtake Judah, removing the people from the land for seventy years (Jeremiah 25).…

Commentary Ezra with Select Psalms Old Testament