Nehemiah’s Prayer The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of...

Ezra Sent to Teach the People Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of...

The Decree of Darius Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents...

Rebuilding Begins Anew Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in...

Adversaries Oppose the Rebuilding Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to...

Rebuilding the Altar When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to...

The Exiles Return Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king...

The Proclamation of Cyrus In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,...