Description

Ezra and Nehemiah begin with a king’s decree and a long road home, and end with a finished wall and a people hearing their story read aloud again. In between: gold bowls counted out one by one, a foundation laid to shouting and weeping, a scribe bent over a scroll, a cup bearer who could not hide his sadness, a night ride along broken walls, builders with a tool in one hand, and a whole city sleeping under branches on its rooftops.

This book walks through it in forty short poems, in five parts, two for Ezra and three for Nehemiah. Each poem sits beside a picture and under a single line of Scripture. The pictures stay with the things the story touches—an altar of uncut stones, a balance scale, a wine cup, a trowel beside a wall—and leave the faces to your imagination.

What’s inside

• 40 original poems by Timothy Holt, in five parts
• 40 full-color, full-page illustrations in soft pastel
• A line of Scripture with every poem (World English Bible)
• 98 pages, 8.5 × 8.5 in square format

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