This week we read both Ezra and Nehemiah in our daily Bible reading.  The books share a common historical background. The people had been taken into captivity to Babylon in three different segments, the first in’ 605 B.C., then 597 and 586.   Jeremiah prophesied in 605 that Judah would face a 70-year captivity (Jer. 25:1).  […]

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