WELCOME TO THE STUDY OF THE BOOK OF EZRA

The seventy years of Israel’s captivity had now come to an end, exactly as Jeremiah said it would and so, the Book of Ezra covers the events of the Jews returning from their Babylonian captivity. In the year 538 B.C., the Medes and Persians took over from the Babylonians and became the ruling power of the world.

All the prisoners, including those from Israel, who were formally under the subjection of Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian king were now under the control of Cyrus, the Medo-Persian king. It was now time for a remnant of God’s people to go home and start building the temple again.