Footnote 1 – Explaining the Identical Lines at the End of Chronicles and the Beginning of Ezra

Originally, Ezra and Nehemiah were considered one book entitled “Ezra.” They still appear as such in the Masorah and among the first medieval exegetes. The division into two is first reflected in the Greek Septuagint and in the Latin translations, although in the Septuagint’s Alexandrian version and the Peshitta the division is not yet found.