. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . eam.) The passage is mostprobably corrupt. Ezra (Heb. help). 1. A descendant of name occurs in the obscure genealogy of 1 17.—2. The famous scribe and priest (in Apoc-rypha Esdras ); son of Seraiah 7, and descendantof Hilkiah 2, the high-priest in Josiahs reign ( 1). All that is really known of Ezra is containedin Ezr. and in Neh. viii. and xii. 26, 36. Fromthese passages we gather that he was a learned andpious priest residing at Babylon in the time of Arta-xerxes Longimanus. The origin of his influencewith the king
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . eam.) The passage is mostprobably corrupt. Ezra (Heb. help). 1. A descendant of name occurs in the obscure genealogy of 1 17.—2. The famous scribe and priest (in Apoc-rypha Esdras ); son of Seraiah 7, and descendantof Hilkiah 2, the high-priest in Josiahs reign ( 1). All that is really known of Ezra is containedin Ezr. and in Neh. viii. and xii. 26, 36. Fromthese passages we gather that he was a learned andpious priest residing at Babylon in the time of Arta-xerxes Longimanus. The origin of his influencewith the king does not appear, but in the seventhyear of his reign, in spite of the unfavorable reportwhich had been sent by Rehum and Shimshai ( 8 fT.), he obtained leave to go to Jerusalem, andto take with him a company of Israelites, togetherwith priests, Levites, singers, porters, and journey of Ezra and his companions from Bab-ylon to Jerusalem took just four months ; and theybrought up with them a large free-will offering of.
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