A Study of the Scriptures

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...in existence at the close of the captivity? What portions must have been written later? How would their religion differ from those with whom they were associated both in Babylon and Egypt? What may they have borrowed from the Persians? PERIOD VIII. PERSIAN DOMINION. LESSON V. Cyrus, Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius Hystaspes, Xerxes 1. Cyrus, B.C. 536-529.--When did Cyrus begin to reign? What did he decree the first year of his reign? Ezra i. 1-4. Would this decree include the ten trioes? Who responded to this decree? 5. What aid was rendered to these? 6. What did Cyrus restore to them? 7-11. How many returned to Judaea at this time? ii. 64 and 65. How many beasts of burden? 66, 67. Who was appointed leader of this caravan, and first governor of Judffia? i. 8, 11. By what other names was he called? ii. 2. Ans. Sheshbazzar was his Persian name; Zerubbabel, his Hebrew name; and Tirsha-tha, i.e. governor (ii. 63), his official title. What relation was he to Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah? Matt. i. 12. Who was the high-priest? Ezra iii. 2; 1 Chron. vi. 14, 15. What different classes of persons returned? Ezra ii. 1-63. When they arrived in the promised land, how did the chiefs show their liberality? 68, 69. Where did the people settle? 70. Where were the Samaritans? How would the Jews and Samaritans in 536 B.C. compare with Jews and Israelites at the separation under Rehoboam? How would the colony returning from Babylon compare with the nation returning from Egypt? What did the people on the first day of the seventh month? iii. 1. What did they build amid the ruins of the temple? 2 and 3. What three sacred seasons occurred this month? Did the people remain through the three? 1-6. What touching evidence of their weakness is given in iii. 3? What arrangements were...