THE SECOND EXODUS
Ezra 2:1
THE journey of the returning exiles from Babylon has some points of
resemblance to the exodus of their fathers from Egypt. On both
occasions the Israelites had been suffering oppression in a foreign
land. Deliverance had come to the ancient Hebrews in so wonderful a
way... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NEW TEMPLE
Ezra 2:68; Ezra 3:1
UNLIKE the historian of the exodus from Egypt, our chronicler gives no
account of adventures of the pilgrims on the road to Palestine,
although much of their way led them through a wild and difficult
country. So huge a caravan as that which accompanied Zerubbabel... [ Continue Reading ]