This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast devoted to helping us gain a deeper love

for the Savior and his gospel through a weekly study of the scriptures.

Hopefully this study will help further prepare us to accompany the Savior as he reckons.

Come Follow Me.

And as always, I'm your host, Melanie Stroud.

This is season 4, episode 24, Ezra and Nihamaia.

I am doing a great work.

And I want to first of say thank you for the kind words about the podcast last week and

for the few people who actually left.

I tune reviews again or Apple Podcast reviews that really made my day.

I don't think you guys know how much I appreciate when you take the time to just reach out

and write me a message or leave a review.

It means a lot.

Especially when I thought I did a really job last week.

It made me feel good to have some people say that they got something out of it.

So thank you for that.

And I'm just going to go ahead and start by reading the introduction.

It's said the Jewish people had been held captive in Babylonia for about 70 years.

They had lost Jerusalem in the temple and many had forgotten their commitment to God's

law.

But God had not forgotten them.

And that's a cool thing right there.

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