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EZRA @ the scribe- kjv@Ezra:7:1,10,25; kjv@Ezra:10:1,16; kjv@Nehemiah:12:26,36 -~~Characteristics of Trustworthiness~~ Ezra:7:13-26 Prayerfulness- kjv@Ezra:8:21; kjv@Ezra:10:1 Faith- kjv@Ezra:8:22 Self-denial- kjv@Ezra:10:6 A Reformer- Ezra:10:2-5 Honoured God's Word
By Study- kjv@Ezra:7:10 -~~By Public Reading and Exposition~~ Nehemiah:8:2-8
By Transcribing it- kjv@Ezra:7:11

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EZRA - E>@ - (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.C. 457.) The journey from Babylon to Jerusalem took just four months; and the company brought with them a large freewill offering of gold and silver, and silver vessels. It appears that Ezra’s great design was to effect a religious reformation among the Palestine Jews. His first step was to enforce separation upon all who had married foreign wives. kjv@Ezra:10:1) ... This was effected in little more than six months after his arrival at Jerusalem. With the detailed account of this important transaction Ezra’s autobiography ends abruptly, and we hear nothing more of him till, thirteen years afterwards, in the twentieth of Artaxerxes, we find him again at Jerusalem with Nehemiah. It seems probable that after effecting the above reformations he returned to the king of Persia. The functions he executed under Nehemiah’s government were purely of a priestly and ecclesiastical character. The date of his death is uncertain. There was a Jewish tradition that he was buried in Persia. The principal works ascribed to him by the Jews are
The instruction of the great synagogue; The settling the canon of Scripture, and restoring, correcting and editing the whole sacred volume; The introduction of the Chaldee character instead of the old Hebrew or Samaritan; The authorship of the books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and, some add, Esther; and, many of the Jews say, also of the books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve prophets; The establishment of synagogues.

EZRA, BOOK OF - E>@ - is a continuation of the books of Chronicles. The period covered by the book is eighty years, from the first of Cyrus, B.C. 536, to the beginning of the eighth of Artaxerxes, B.C. 456. It consist of the contemporary historical journals kept from time to time, containing, chs. 1-12, and account of the return of the captives under Zerubbabel, and the rebuilding of the temple in the reign of Cyrus and Cambyses. Most of the book is written in Hebrew, but from chs. 4:8 to 6:19 it is written in Chaldee. The last four chapters, beginning with ch. 7, continue the history after a gap of fifty-eight years
from the sixth of Darius to the seventh of Artaxerxes
narrating his visit to Jerusalem, and giving an account of the reforms there accomplished, referred to under EZRA. Much of the book was written by Ezra himself, though the first chapter was probably written by Daniel; and other hands are evident.

EZRAHITE, THE - E>@ - (son of Zerah), a title attached to two persons
Ethan, (Kings:4:31; kjv@Psalms:89:1) title, and Heman, Psal 88:1 title.

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(1.) A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem under Zerubabel kjv@Nehemiah: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 ( kjv@2Kings:25:18-21), and a lineal descendant of Phinehas, the son of Aaron kjv@Ezra:7:1-5). All we know of his personal history is contained in the last four chapters of his book, and in Nehemiah:8 and 12:26. In the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus (see DARIUS), he obtained leave to go up to Jerusalem and to take with him a company of Israelites Ezra:8). Artaxerxes manifested great interest in Ezra's undertaking, granting him "all his request," and loading him with gifts for the house of God. Ezra assembled the band of exiles, probably about 5,000 in all, who were prepared to go up with him to Jerusalem, on the banks of the Ahava, where they rested for three days, and were put into order for their march across the desert, which was completed in four months. His proceedings at Jerusalem on his arrival there are recorded in his book. He was "a ready scribe in the law of Moses," who "had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." "He is," says Professor Binnie, "the first well-defined example of an order of men who have never since ceased in the church; men of sacred erudition, who devote their lives to the study of the Holy Scriptures, in order that they may be in a condition to interpret them for the instruction and edification of the church. It is significant that the earliest mention of the pulpit occurs in the history of Ezra's ministry kjv@Nehemiah:8:4). He was much more of a teacher than a priest. We learn from the account of his labours in the book of Nehemiah that he was careful to have the whole people instructed in the law of Moses; and there is no reason to reject the constant tradition of the Jews which connects his name with the collecting and editing of the Old Testament canon. The final completion of the canon may have been, and probably was, the work of a later generation; but Ezra seems to have put it much into the shape in which it is still found in the Hebrew Bible. When it is added that the complete organization of the synagogue dates from this period, it will be seen that the age was emphatically one of Biblical study" (The Psalms: their History, etc.). For about fourteen years, i.e., till B.C. 445, we have no record of what went on in Jerusalem after Ezra had set in order the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the nation. In that year another distinguished personage, Nehemiah, appears on the scene. After the ruined wall of the city had been built by Nehemiah, there was a great gathering of the people at Jerusalem preparatory to the dedication of the wall. On the appointed day the whole population assembled, and the law was read aloud to them by Ezra and his assistants kjv@Nehemiah:8:3). The remarkable scene is described in detail. There was a great religious awakening. For successive days they held solemn assemblies, confessing their sins and offering up solemn sacrifices. They kept also the feast of Tabernacles with great solemnity and joyous enthusiasm, and then renewed their national covenant to be the Lord's. Abuses were rectified, and arrangements for the temple service completed, and now nothing remained but the dedication of the walls of the city Nehemiah:12).

Ezra, Book of @ This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the Vulgate version as I. and II. Esdras. It consists of two principal divisions:

(1.) The history of the first return of exiles, in the first year of Cyrus (B.C. 536), till the completion and dedication of the new temple, in the sixth year of Darius Hystapes (B.C. 515), ch. 1-6. From the close of the sixth to the opening of the seventh chapter there is a blank in the history of about sixty years.

(2.) The history of the second return under Ezra, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and of the events that took place at Jerusalem after Ezra's arrival there (7-10). The book thus contains memorabilia connected with the Jews, from the decree of Cyrus (B.C. 536) to the reformation by Ezra (B.C. 456), extending over a period of about eighty years. There is no quotation from this book in the New Testament, but there never has been any doubt about its being canonical. Ezra was probably the author of this book, at least of the greater part of it (comp. kjv@7:27-28; 8:1, etc.), as he was also of the Books of Chronicles, the close of which forms the opening passage of Ezra.

Ezrahite @ a title given to Ethan (kjvKings:4:31; kjv@Psalms:89, title) and Heman kjv@Psalms:88, title). They were both sons of Zerah ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:6).

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EZRA @

-1. A famous scribe and priest kjv@Ezra:7:1-5-6 kjv@Ezra:7:10 kjv@Ezra:7:21; kjv@Nehemiah:12:36 .Appoints a fast kjv@Ezra:8:21 .Commissioned by Artaxerxes, returns to Jerusalem with a large group of Jews kjv@Ezra:7:8 .His charge to the priests kjv@Ezra:8:29 .Exhorts people to put away their heathen wives kjv@Ezra:9; Ezra:10:1-17 .Reads the law Nehemiah:8 .Reforms corruptions kjv@Ezra:10; Nehemiah:13 .Dedicates the wall of Jerusalem kjv@Nehemiah:12:27-43

-2. A leading priest among the colonists under Zerubbabel kjv@Nehemiah:12:1 .Probably identical with AZARIAH in kjv@Nehemiah:10:2 .And kjv@Ezra:7:1

-3. A descendant of Judah kjv@1Chronicles:4:17

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kjv@STRING:Ezra <HITCHCOCK>@ help; court - HITCHCOCK-E

kjv@STRING:Hezrai <HITCHCOCK>@ an entry or vestibule - HITCHCOCK-H

kjv@STRING:Jezrahiah <HITCHCOCK>@ the Lord arises; brightness of the Lord - HITCHCOCK-J

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EZRA @ the scribe- kjv@Ezra:7:1,10,25; kjv@Ezra:10:1,16; kjv@Nehemiah:12:26,36 -~~Characteristics of Trustworthiness~~ Ezra:7:13~~26 Prayerfulness~~ kjv@Ezra:8:21; kjv@Ezra:10:1 Faith- kjv@Ezra:8:22 Self~~denial~~ kjv@Ezra:10:6 A Reformer- Ezra:10:2-5 Honoured God's Word -~~By Study~~ kjv@Ezra:7:10 -~~By Public Reading and Exposition~~ Nehemiah:8:2-8 -~~By Transcribing it~~ kjv@Ezra:7:11

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H2695 <STRHEB>@ חצרו chetsrô khets-ro' By an orthographical variation for H2696; inclosure; {Chetsro} an Israelite: - {Hezro} Hezrai.

H250 <STRHEB>@ אזרחי 'ezrâchîy ez-raw-khee' Patronymic from H2246; an Ezrachite or descendants of Zerach: - Ezrahite.

H3155 <STRHEB>@ יזרח yizrâch yiz-rawkh' A variation for H250; a Jizrach (that {is} Ezrachite or Zarchite) or descendant of Zerach: - Izrahite.

H3156 <STRHEB>@ יזרחיה yizrachyâh yiz-rakh-yaw' From H2224 and H3050; Jah will shine; {Jizrachjah} the name of two Israelites: - {Izrahiah} Jezrahiah.

H5830 <STRHEB>@ עזרא ‛ezrâ' ez-raw' A variation of H5833; {Ezra} an Israelite: - Ezra.

H5831 <STRHEB>@ עזרא ‛ezrâ' ez-raw' (Chaldee); corresponding to H5830; {Ezra} an Israelite: - Ezra.

H5834 <STRHEB>@ עזרה ‛ezrâh ez-raw' The same as H5833; {Ezrah} an Israelite: - Ezrah.