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Ezra
Nehemiah
1:1 to 6:19 The wall.
Rebuilding.
1:1 -4
The people. Emancipation
7:1 -4
Conditions of the city.
People few.
Houses not built.
1:5 to 2:70
Return under
7:5 -73
Return under
Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel.
(The Temple still desolate:
and for sixteen years later
Haggai 1:1 -4).
Feast of the Seventh Month
7:73 to 8:18
Feast of the
(426 b.c.).
Seventh Month (426 b.c.).
3:1 -13
Temple. Foundation laid.
4:1 to 6:15
Temple Building.
6:16 -22
Temple Dedication.
7:1 to 8:36
Return under Ezra.
9:1 -4
Feast of Seventh
9:1 -37
Feast of Seventh Month
Month
(404 B.C.).
(404 B.C.).
9:5
Separation of the people.
9:38
Separation of the people.
Ezra's prayer.
Levites' prayer.
10:1 -44
Strange wives put away,
10:1 -39
Strange wives put away,
and the Covenant made.
and the Covenant made.
11:1 to 12:26
Residents in Jerusalem.
12:27 -47
Wall dedicated.
13:1 -31
Reformation of the
people.
The traditional view which places Ezra chronologically before Nehemiah
makes us believe that the temple would be built before the city and its walls
were restored. This is not only illogical, it is inconceivable in view of
the report of Hanani concerning the desolations (Neh. 1:3; 2:3). If there
were already in Jerusalem 42,360 exiles who had returned to Jerusalem (Ezra
2:64), Nehemiah would not have limited his inquiry as to 'the Jews that had
escaped, which were left of the captivity' (Neh. 1:2) neither would he have