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Three Old Testament scholars offer passage-by-passage commentary through the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and Job, explaining difficult doctrines, shedding light on overlooked sections, and applying them to life and ministry today. Part of the ESV Expository Commentary series.
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[Preface] The Bible pulsates with life, and the Spirit conveys the electrifying power of Scripture to those who lay hold of it by faith, ingest it, and live by it.
[Introduction to Ezra] Ezra, along with Nehemiah, recounts a series of homecomings.
[Introduction to Nehemiah] Nehemiah completes the story of the homecoming and restoration of God's people begun in Ezra.
[Introduction to Esther] The book of Esther narrates the deliverance of God's people from the schemes of Haman, who plots the earth of every Jew in the Persian Empire over a personal insult (Est. 3:6).
[Introduction to Job] The book of Job prefigures the purposeful suffering of Jesus Christ.
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[Preface] May God bless the study of his Word, and may he smile on this attempt to expound it.
[Introduction to Ezra] For the returnees, Zerubbabel is the more prominent leader, taking the lead with the altar and temple construction attributed to him in Ezra 3 and Haggai. [Plus outline]
[Introduction to Nehemiah] The fact that cooperation between Ezra and Nehemiah is discussed only in a limited way in Ezra-Nehemiah does not mean there was not more cooperation; it only means that detailing the cooperation was not important to the story that is preserved. [Plus outline]
[Introduction to Esther] The book bearing her name shows God working his deliverance through entirely imperfect people prompting the reader to reflect on how God's acts of deliverance for is people living in exile might be better stewarded, not in vengeance upon our persecutors but in speaking about God who works such deliverance. [Plus outline]
[Introduction to Job] Elihu's speeches, like Yahweh's, offer not explanation for human suffering, and, like Jesus' explanation of the blind man's suffering in John 9:1-3, they point to the need to lean on God's wisdom, not human understanding, and to believe that even through severe human sufferings "the works of God" might very well "be displayed" (John 9:3). [Plus outline]
Three Old Testament scholars offer passage-by-passage commentary through the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and Job, explaining difficult doctrines, shedding light on overlooked sections, and applying them to life and ministry today. Part of the ESV Expository Commentary series.
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