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Bible History Commentary: New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Excellent tool for teachers—elementary, Sunday school, vacation Bible school, Bible class—and students. Franzmann clarifies historical accounts, explains difficult passages, offers essential background information, warns about misapplications of the biblical narrative, and reminds readers of the gospel. Contains maps, illustrated charts and tables, a Hebrew calendar, indexes of proper names and...

trouble accounting for the presence of Jews in Babylon. Many had remained there when thousands of their countrymen returned from the Babylonian Captivity to Judea under Cyrus and again at the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. (See the exposition of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah.) The teacher will also find Daniel 2:48; 5:11 instructive here. Therefore the wise men must have heard from Jews the precious prophecies of the Messiah-king and been won to faith in them.1 It was a wonderul, miraculous star
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