Ezra
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for
he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the
people stood up:...
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And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they
had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and
Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on
his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael,
and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, [and]
Meshullam....
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And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people
answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they
bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with [their] faces
to the ground....
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(Hebrew: עֶזְרָא, Modern Ezra Tiberian ʻEzrâ; Greek: Έσδράς;
Latin: Esdras) was a Jewish priestly scribe who led about
5,000 Israelite exiles living in Babylon to their home city of
Jerusalem in 459 BCE. Ezra reconstituted the dispersed Jewish
community on the basis of the Torah and with an emphasis on
the law. According to the Hebrew Bible, E...
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ez'-ra (Aramaic or Chaldee, `ezra', "help"; a
hypocoristicon, or shortened form of Azariah, "Yahweh has
helped." The Hebrew spells the name `ezrah, as in 1 Ch 4:17,
or uses the Aramaic spelling of the name, as in Ezr 7:1. The
Greek form is Esdras):
(1) A priest who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Neh
12:1). In Neh 10:2, Azariah, the ful...
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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...
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(help), called ESDRAS in the Apocrypha, the famous scribe
and priest. He was a learned and pious priest residing at
Babylon in the time of Artaxerxes Longimanus. The origin of
his influence with the king does not appear, but in the
seventh year of his reign he obtained leave to go to
Jerusalem, and to take with him a company of Israelites.
(B...
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help. (1.) A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem
under
Zerubabel (Neh. 12:1).
(2.) The "scribe" who led the second body of exiles
that
returned from Babylon to Jerusalem B.C. 459, and
author of the
book of Scripture which bears his name. He was the
son, or
perhaps grandson, of Seraiah (2 Kings 25:18-21), and
a lineal
descendant...
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("the helper," as Nehemiah means "the comforter".)
1. A "ready scribe in the law of Moses" (Ezra 7:6;
Ezra 7:11-12); "a scribe of the words of the commandments of
the Lord and of His statutes to Israel"; "a scribe of the
law of the God of heaven"; "priest"; a worthy descendant of
Hilkiah the priest under Josiah, who "found the book of the
la...
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