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Ezra
12 lines · 18 passages
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1. A famous scribe and priest
Ezra 7:1–5, 6, 10, 21; Neh 12:36
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Appoints a fast
Ezra 8:21
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Commissioned by Artaxerxes, returns to Jerusalem with a large group of Jews
Ezra 7:8
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His charge to the priests
Ezra 8:29
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Exhorts people to put away their heathen wives
Ezra 9; 10:1–17
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Reads the law
Neh 8
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Reforms corruptions
Ezra 10; Neh 13
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Dedicates the wall of Jerusalem
Neh 12:27–43
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2. A leading priest among the colonists under Zerubbabel
Neh 12:1
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Probably identical with AZARIAH in
Neh 10:2
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And
Ezra 7:1
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3. A descendant of Judah
1 Chr 4:17
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.