Well, the drama! What a brilliant book! I don't think I've read all of Esther in one day before. There's dunkneness (several times), a stubborn queen, a bride finding ball (to quote Slipper and the Rose), jealousy, anger, plotting, royal decrees, strong and steadfast heroes who save the day... what's not to love? Let's talk [...]
I didn't really see why this must be the case when reading Ezra, but The Bible Project says that Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book. But now, having read Nehemiah straight afterwards, I have noticed all the references to 'Ezra the scribe and Nehemiah the governor', and how they had the same goals and [...]
Hello and welcome to Ezra. It's not a book I know a huge amount about. Apparently, according to The Bible Project, it was one book with Nehemiah originally! Anyway, Ezra is about some of the people who were taken to Babylon into exile returning to Jerusalem. Once there, they wanted to rebuild the altar and [...]
As with 1 Chronicles, a lot of the stories in this book can be found earlier on in the Bible, in the Samuel and Kings books. Although the bad kings of the north aren't mentioned, which means the narrative feels like there is much more balance, there is still war, threat, violence, and murder to [...]
