Ezra 7:1-6

Ezra Sent to Teach the People

1 Now after this, v in the reign of v Artaxerxes king of Persia, w Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, 2 son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, 3 son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, 4 son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, 5 son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest - 6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe x skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, y for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

  1. Cross References
    Nehemiah 2:1
    In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
  2. Cross References
    Nehemiah 2:1
    In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
  3. Cross References
    Ezra 7:1 - 5
    Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah.
    1 Chronicles 6:4 - 14
    Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua.
  4. Cross References
    Ezra 7:11 - 12
    This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerx...
    Ezra 7:21
    And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to al...
    Nehemiah 8:1 - 3
    And all the people gathered as one man into the...
    Nehemiah 8:13
    On the second day the heads of fathers' houses ...
    Nehemiah 12:26
    These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Je...
    Nehemiah 12:36
    And his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, G...
  5. Cross References
    Ezra 7:9
    For on the first day of the first month he bega...
    Ezra 7:28
    And who extended to me his steadfast love befor...
    Ezra 8:18
    And by the good hand of our God on us, they bro...
    Ezra 8:22
    For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of...
    Ezra 8:31
    Then we departed from the river Ahava on the tw...
    Nehemiah 2:8
    And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's...
    Nehemiah 2:18
    And I told them of the hand of my God that had ...
    Ezra 5:5
    But the eye of their God was on the elders of t...
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