Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Book Overview - Nehemiah
by Albert Barnes
Introduction to Nehemiah
In the earliest form of the Hebrew canon known to us the books of Ezra and Nehemiah were united in one, under the name of “The Book of Ezra.†After a while, a division was made, and the two books which we now recognize were distinguished as “the First Book of Ezra†and “the Second Book of Ezra†Later still - probably not until toward the close of the fourth century - the Second Book of Ezra came to be known as “the Book of Nehemiah.â€
The Book of Nehemiah is composed of four quite distinct sections:
(1) Nehemiah 1-7 containing the record of the 20th year of Artaxerxes (or 445-444 B.C.), but composed by Nehemiah at least twelve years later Nehemiah 5:14.