The five post-captivity books may be thus briefly regarded: —
1. Ezra, who unfolds the ecclesiastical state of things.
2. Nehemiah, who depicts the civil condition.
3. Haggai, the prophet of encouragement.
4. Zechariah, the prophet of the future.
5. Malachi, the prophet of the people’s moral condition.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider your ways.” May writer and reader lay the exhortation to heart.