A famous scribe and priest
Ezra 7:1-5,6,10,21; Nehemiah 12:36
Appoints a fast
Ezra 8:21
Commissioned by Artaxerxes, returns to Jerusalem with a large group of Jews
Ezra 7:8
His charge to the priests
Ezra 8:29
Exhorts people to put away their heathen wives
Ezra 9; 10:1-17
Reads the law
Nehemiah 8
Reforms corruptions
Ezra 10; Nehemiah 13
Dedicates the wall of Jerusalem
Nehemiah 12:27-43
A leading priest among the colonists under Zerubbabel
Nehemiah 12:1
He’s probably identical with AZARIAH in
Nehemiah 10:2
And
Ezra 7:1
A descendant of Judah
1 Chronicles 4:17
