Excerpt from The Books of ChroniclesThe occasion.-the books of Ezra and Nehemiah contain a narra tive of events occurring after the return of the Jews from the exile of seventy years the former having for its central event the rebuilding of the temple, the latter the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.