›Chapter 1 - Judah's Captivity in Babylon - Being studies and meditations on the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.
The Babylonish Captivity, considered as an era in the progress of Divine di ...read
›Chapter 3 - Ezra 5-6 - This is so, indeed, as we have seen.
We soon find, however, that we have more to say, but if we be instructed and encouraged by the returned captives ...read
›Chapter 4 - Ezra 7-10 - As we enter these chapters, we have passed an interval of about sixty years, and are in company with a new generation of captives, and are about to wi ...read
›Chapter 6 - Nehemiah 7-10 - Here we read, "Now the city was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded" (ver. 4). Having therefore built th ...read
›Chapter 7 - Nehemiah 11-13 - These chapters witness the people still earnest and obedient. The day of revival continues. The freshness of its morning has, in no measure, faded, th ...read
›Chapter 8 - Esther 1-2 - The book opens by presenting to us a sight of the Gentile now in power. It is, however, the Persian and not the Chaldean; "the breast of silver," not ...read
›Chapter 9 - Esther 3 - The Jew, strange to say it, as we have seen, becomes important to the power, that is, to the Persian. But more so than I have as yet noticed--importan ...read
›Chapter 10 - Esther 4 - 5 - The various exercises of the soul in these chapters, as we see in Esther and Mordecai, are a matter of great interest. The hand and the Spirit of God ...read
›Chapter 11 - Esther 6 - 7 - Every secret thing must reach its day of manifestation. The word which Mordecai told the king about Teresh and Bigthana, the chamberlains, though hith ...read
›Chapter 12 - Esther 8-10 - We close this Book with the deliverance of the Jews in the very moment when destruction was awaiting them, and with their exaltation in the kingdom, a ...read
›Chapter 13 - Conclusion - Having read the books of Ezra and Nehemiah by themselves, as the story of the returned captives, and the book of Esther by itself as the story of the ...read
