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Ezra and Nehemiah are considered some of the “historical” books of the Bible, for in them we get a glimpse of life in Israel after the exile in Babylon. Dr. Schoville identifies these as the Ezra Memoirs and the Nehemiah Memoirs. It is his belief that the first-person material in these books was probably written around 400 B.C., while an editor compiled these memoirs with other sources around 300...

those present.81 Perhaps Nehemiah had chosen the day; that is the implication of Give your servant success today in the prayer above. I took the wine … Envision the king eating with others, Nehemiah near him. A subordinate brought the wine to Nehemiah, who then tasted it and offered it to the king. The cupbearer then was adjacent to the king and fully visible to him. … sad … The Heb literally reads, רַע (ra‘), “bad,” similar to our usage, “you look bad” for “you look ill.” Nehemiah had been serving
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