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Ezra

1. A famous scribe and priest—Ezr 7:1-5,6,10,21; Ne 12:36

• Appoints a fast
• —Ezr 8:21
• Commissioned by Artaxerxes, returns to Jerusalem with a
• large group of Jews—Ezr 7:8
• His charge to the priests
• —Ezr 8:29
• Exhorts people to put away their heathen wives
• —Ezr 9; 10:1-17
• Reads the law
• —Ne 8
• Reforms corruptions
• —Ezr 10; Ne 13
• Dedicates the wall of Jerusalem
• —Ne 12:27-43

2. A leading priest among the colonists under Zerubbabel—Ne 12:1

• Probably identical with AZARIAH in
• —Ne 10:2
• And
• —Ezr 7:1

3. A descendant of Judah—1Ch 4:17