Now viewing scripture range from the book of 1 Esdras chapter 6:14 through chapter 6:17...
14 And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
15 But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, of the Chaldees;
16 Who pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives unto Babylon.
17 But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house.
Why is this book in the Bible?