Excerpt from A Commentary of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 7: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical, With Special Reference to Ministers and Students; Containing Chronicles of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther The last book of the Old Testament canon forms a comprehensive history, which recapitulates the progress of the people of God from Paradise to the close Of the Babylonish captivity in a peculiar point of view, partly extracting, partly repeating, and partly supplementing the contents of the earlier canonical books of history, with the exception of the books of Ezra Nehemiah, and Esther, which are later in point of contents than our book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.