Time Covered: 537–c. 467 B.C.E.

It covers 70 years, from the time that the Jews were a broken, scattered nation marked as “the sons of death” to the completion of the second temple and the cleansing of the priesthood after Ezra’s return to Jerusalem.​—Ezra 1:1; 7:7; 10:17; Ps. 102:20, footnote.