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Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther: Restoring the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

The books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther were written thousands of years ago, and yet they remain relevant to God’s people as they demonstrate God’s faithfulness in difficult times and earnestly seek revival. Designed to help modern readers understand and apply the messages of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther to their own lives, this commentary by pastor Wallace P. Benn walks carefully through the text....

king, became God’s instrument to bring this about. The people returned under Cyrus’s decree (2 Chronicles 36:22–23; Ezra 1:1–11), but never in the hoped-for numbers. After a delay the temple was rebuilt, but it never recaptured the glory of Solomon’s temple. The year now is 446 B.C. (Nehemiah 1:1), twenty-two years after Ezra returned to Jerusalem. Previous attempts to rebuild the wall and restore the fortunes of Jerusalem had come to nothing (see Ezra 4:12ff.). How did it come about that Nehemiah
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