Chapter, Paragraph

 1 6,1 |         of the king’s kindness (Ezra 1, 2). Obstacles and disappointments
 2 13,4|        the attentive student of Ezra and Nehemiah.~ The phrases
 3 14,1|     nearly 5,700 out of 42,360 (Ezra 2), a pro­portion of about
 4 14,1|        of about 1 in 7 and 1/2. Ezra is not so explicit about
 5 14,1|         Urim and with Thummim” (Ezra 2:62f). There is no suggestion
 6 14,1| priesthood was now exalted.~ 3. Ezra and to a less extent Nehemiah
 7 14,1|    story clearly sug­gests that Ezra was no innovator; he was
 8 14,2|       rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:4f), especially in the
 9 14,2|       of covering the expenses (Ezra 6:4). This worked in with
10 14,2|      was officially challenged (Ezra 5:3), the central govern­
11 14,2|        original edict of Cyrus (Ezra 6:6-12), which was then
12 14,2|       by the local authorities (Ezra 6:13) (The above picture
13 14,4| rebuilding in under four years (Ezra 6:15; Hag. 1:1). That is
14 14,5|       is perfectly true that in Ezra “the people (or peoples)
15 14,5|        But since we cannot date Ezra before 400 B.C. at the earliest,
16 14,6|     laid sixteen years earlier (Ezra. 3:lOf). It has already
17 14,6|     recommencement of the work. Ezra 5:16 is no contradiction.
18 14,7|      his official position (cf. Ezra 5:4). So he received a special
19 15,3|        Berechiah in Neh. 12:16; Ezra 5:1; 6:14 suggests that
20 16,2|  connected with the activity of Ezra and Nehemiah which would
21 16,4|       returned, cf. the work of Ezra and Nehemiah, was making
22 17,2|        lieved to be as early as Ezra” (Daniel (The Century Bible),
23 17,7|      same name, IChron. 3:1 and Ezra 8:2 (Neh. 10:6). A spelling
24 17,3|     seventh year of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:7); while the chronology
25 17,3|  nothing in the decree given to Ezra (Ezra 7:11-26) which makes
26 17,3|       the decree given to Ezra (Ezra 7:11-26) which makes it
27 17,3|       make the decree of Cyrus (Ezra 1:2ft) the starting point.