Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
A.M.
Ezra 7:12,21 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law …
Ezra 6:14 And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the …
Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of …
Nehemiah 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, …
Nehemiah 8:1-10:44 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the …
Nehemiah 8:2-9 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both …
Seraiah
2 Kings 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah …
1 Chronicles 6:4-14 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua…
1 Chronicles 9:11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of …
Nehemiah 11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, …
Jeremiah 52:24-27 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah …
Hilkiah
2 Kings 22:4,8 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which …
2 Chronicles 34:9,15 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the …
The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
Phinehas
Exodus 6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to …
Numbers 25:7-13 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, …
Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and …
Joshua 22:13,31 And the children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to …
Judges 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before …
1 Chronicles 6:4,50-52 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua…
Psalm 106:30,31 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed…
Eleazar
Leviticus 10:6,12,16 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, …
Numbers 3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief …
Numbers 20:25-28 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to mount Hor…
Numbers 27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before …
Numbers 31:31,54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses…
Joshua 14:1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited …
Joshua 24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill …
1 Chronicles 24:1-6 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; …
chief priest
2 Chronicles 19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters …
2 Chronicles 26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, …
Hebrews 5:4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he that is called of …
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
a ready (Sopher mahir does not merely signify a speedy writer, or an excellent penman, but one eminently skilful in expounding the law, sophro chochmo, 'a wise scribe,' as the Syriac renders.)
Ezra 7:11,12,21 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave …
Psalm 45:1 My heart is gushing a good matter: I speak of the things which I …
Matthew 13:52 Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed …
scribe
Nehemiah 8:4,9,13 And Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made …
Nehemiah 12:26,36 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, …
Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? …
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of …
the law
Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD …
Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached …
1 Thessalonians 4:1,2 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus…
granted him
Ezra 7:11-26 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave …
according to
Ezra 7:9,28 For on the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, …
Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the …
Ezra 8:18,22,31 And by the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of understanding, …
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: …
Nehemiah 1:10,11 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed …
Nehemiah 2:8,12,18 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest…
Nehemiah 4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known to …
Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none …
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither …
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
the children
Ezra 8:1-14 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy …
the Levites
Ezra 2:40,41 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children …
Ezra 8:15-20 And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and …
singers
1 Chronicles 6:31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the …
1 Chronicles 25:1-8 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …
porters
Ezra 2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children …
1 Chronicles 9:17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, …
Nehemiah 7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children …
Nethinims
Ezra 7:24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, …
Ezra 2:43 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the …
Ezra 8:20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for …
Nehemiah 7:46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the …
Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, …
Artaxerxes
Ezra 7:11,12 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave …
Ezra 6:14 And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the …
Ezra 8:1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy …
Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of …
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
prepared
1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return …
1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…
2 Chronicles 12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have …
Job 11:13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;
Psalm 10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their …
Psalm 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
the law
Ezra 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the …
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he …
Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony …
Psalm 119:45,96-100 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts…
to do it
Deuteronomy 16:12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt: and you shall …
Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and …
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will …
John 13:17 If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right …
and to teach
Ezra 7:25 And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, …
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they …
2 Chronicles 17:8,9 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and …
2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the …
Nehemiah 8:1-9 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the …
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …
Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus …
1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, …
Titus 2:1,15 But speak you the things which become sound doctrine…
Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Artaxerxes (The title of the king would, in Persian, run thus: Ardsheer shahinshah, or padshah, 'Ardsheer, king of kings,' i.e. great or supreme king or emperor.)
1 Kings 4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from …
1 Kings 20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and …
Isaiah 10:8 For he said, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Ezekiel 26:7 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring on Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar …
Daniel 2:37,47 You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given …
1 Timothy 6:15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, …
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: …
Revelation 19:16 And he has on his clothing and on his thigh a name written, KING …
unto Ezra, etc. or, to Ezra the priest, a perfect scribe of the law of the God of heaven, peace, etc. and at such a time
Ezra 4:10,11,17 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought …
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellers, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
of the king. Chal. from before the king. seven counsellors (Seven princes of Persia having conspired against and slain the usurper Smerdis, and thus made way for the family of Darius, which afterwards filled the throne, the Persian kings of this race had always seven chief princes as their counsellors, who possessed peculiar privileges, were his chief assistants in the government, and by whose advice all the public affairs of the empire were transacted. The names of these counsellors are given in the parallel place of the book of Esther.)
Esther 1:14 And the next to him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, …
according
Ezra 7:25,26 And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, …
Deuteronomy 17:18,19 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom…
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this …
thy God
Ezra 1:3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and …
Ezra 5:8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judea, …
Ezra 6:12 And the God that has caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings …
Daniel 2:47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your …
Daniel 6:20,26 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice to …
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellers have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
the silver
Ezra 6:4,8-10 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let …
Psalm 68:29,30 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to you…
Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …
Psalm 76:11 Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that be round about him …
Isaiah 60:6-9 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian …
Revelation 21:24-26 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of …
whose habitation
Ezra 6:12 And the God that has caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings …
2 Chronicles 2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven …
2 Chronicles 6:2,6 But I have built an house of habitation for you, and a place for …
Psalm 9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwells in Zion: declare among the …
Psalm 26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where …
Psalm 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
Psalm 135:21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwells at Jerusalem. Praise …
And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.
The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.
And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Artaxerxes
Ezra 7:12,13 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law …
beyond the river
Ezra 4:16,20 We certify the king that, if this city be built again, and the walls …
Ezra 6:6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, …
Ezra 6:6,10,11 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, …
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
the wisdom
Ezra 7:14 For as much as you are sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, …
1 Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and …
1 Chronicles 22:12 Only the LORD give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge …
Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony …
Psalm 119:98-100 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: …
Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs …
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …
James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
set magistrates
Exodus 18:21-25 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as …
Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the …
1 Chronicles 23:4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of …
2 Chronicles 19:8-10 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of …
beyond the river (That is, 'west of the Euphrates,' which was beyond with regard to the king of Persia, who was on the east.)
Ezra 6:6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, …
teach ye
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and …
2 Chronicles 17:7-9 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even …
Nehemiah 8:1-3,7,8 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the …
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law …
Nehemiah 13:1-3 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the …
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …
Matthew 13:52 Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed …
Matthew 23:2,3 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat…
Mark 6:34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with …
Romans 10:14-17 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and …
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
whosoever
Ezra 6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let …
Daniel 3:28,29 Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, …
Daniel 6:26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble …
the law of thy God
2 Chronicles 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the …
whether it be
Exodus 21:1-22:31 Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them…
Leviticus 20:1-27 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Deuteronomy 13:1-18 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives …
banishment. Chal. rooting out
Psalm 52:5 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, …
Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
Blessed (There is a most amiable spirit of piety in these reflections. Instead of expatiating on the praises of his munificent patron, or boasting of his own services, he blesses God for 'putting such a thing in the king's heart;' and for all the assistance and favour shown him by the king and his counsellors.)
Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the …
1 Chronicles 29:10 Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David …
Philippians 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care …
put such
Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the …
Nehemiah 2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told …
Nehemiah 7:5 And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the …
2 Corinthians 8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart …
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel …
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, …
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down …
Revelation 17:17 For God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, …
in the king's heart
Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest…
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: …
to beautify
Isaiah 60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine tree, …
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
extended
Ezra 9:9 For we were slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, …
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: …
Genesis 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send …
Nehemiah 1:11 O LORD, I beseech you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer …
his counsellors
Ezra 7:14 For as much as you are sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, …
Jonah 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by …
And I was strengthened (In what the king decreed he saw the hand of God: he therefore gave Him the praise, and took courage.)
as the hand
Ezra 7:6,9 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the …
Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, that they …
Ezra 8:18 And by the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of understanding, …
Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest…
2 Timothy 4:17,18 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that …
