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Esdras 7:1

Pasadas estas cosas, en el reinado de Artajerjes rey de Persia, Esdras, hijo de Seraías, hijo de Azarías, hijo de Hilcías,

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Azariah;   Ezra;   Genealogy;   Hilkiah;   Priest;   Seraiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ezra;   Hilkiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Medo-Persian Kingdom;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Seraiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Canon;   Ezra;   Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Azariah;   Ezra;   Hilkiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahasuerus;   Artaxerxes;   Azariah;   Chronicles, the Books of;   Chronology;   Eli;   Ezra;   Ezra, the Book of;   Genealogy;   Hilkiah;   Malachi;   Persia;   Pethahiah;   Seraiah;   Zadok;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Azariah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Chronology of the Biblical Period;   Ezra, Book of;   High Priest;   Persia;   Seraiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Artaxerxes;   Azaraias;   Azariah;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Helkias;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Seraiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes ;   Azariah ;   Esther, Book of;   Genealogy of the Lord Jesus;   Hilkiah ;   Persia, Persians;   Seraiah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sera'iah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accursed;   Ahitub;   Azaraias;   Eleazar;   Ezerias;   Ezra;   Genealogy;   Meraiah;   Moses;   Phinees;   Saraias;   Seraiah;   Zadok;   Zechrias;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahasuerus;   Artaxerxes;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Azariah;   Ezra the Scribe;   Genealogy;   Hilkiah;   Seraiah;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Después de estas cosas, en el reinado de Artajerjes, rey de Persia, subió Esdras hijo de Seraías, hijo de Azarías, hijo de Hilcías,
La Biblia Reina-Valera
PASADAS estas cosas, en el reinado de Artajerjes rey de Persia, Esdras, hijo de Sera�as, hijo de Azar�as, hijo de Hilc�as,
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Pasadas estas cosas, en el reinado de Artajerjes, rey de Persia, Esdras, hijo de Sera�as, hijo de Azar�as, hijo de Hilc�as,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3547, bc 457

Artaxerxes: Ezra 7:12, Ezra 7:21, Ezra 6:14, Nehemiah 2:1

Ezra: Ezra 7:10, Ezra 8:1 - Ezra 10:44, Nehemiah 8:2-9

Seraiah: 2 Kings 25:18, 1 Chronicles 6:4-14, 1 Chronicles 9:11, Nehemiah 11:11, Jeremiah 52:24-27

Hilkiah: 2 Kings 22:4, 2 Kings 22:8, 2 Chronicles 34:9, 2 Chronicles 34:15

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:14 - Seraiah 1 Chronicles 6:50 - Eleazar 2 Chronicles 17:8 - priests Nehemiah 12:36 - Ezra Daniel 9:25 - from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 1-5. Now after these things,.... The finishing of the temple, and the dedication of it, and keeping the passover:

in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia; in the seventh year of his reign, Ezra 7:7, who is the same with Darius in the preceding chapter; so Jarchi and Aben Ezra; Ezra 7:7- :.

Ezra the son of Seraiah; the high priest slain by Nebuchadnezzar

Jeremiah 52:24, this Ezra was a younger son of his, brother to Josedech, and uncle to Joshua, who were high priests in succession; his pedigree is carried in the ascending line up to Aaron, in this and the four following verses; only six generations, for brevity sake, are omitted, between Azariah and Meraioth, which may be supplied from 1 Chronicles 6:7,

See Gill on "1Ch 6:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After these things - The words mark an interval of 57 years; if, with most commentators, we take Artaxerxes to be Longimanus. See the introduction to the Book of Ezra. Three kings named Artaxerxes, the Greek rendering of the Hebrew Artakhshasta, and the Persian Artakhshatra, ruled over Persia, namely,: Longimanus, Mnemon, and Ochus. The evidence is in favor of the first being meant here: he was the grandson of Darius Hystaspis, Jeshua’s contemporary.

The genealogy of Ezra here is incomplete. The time between the Exodus and Ezra must have exceeded one thousand years, and cannot have been covered by 16 generations. One gap may be filled up from 1 Chronicles 6:7-10, which supplies six names between Meraioth and Azariah Ezra 7:3 : another gap probably occurs between Seraiah Ezra 7:1 and Ezra himself; since Seraiah appears to be the high priest of Zedekiah’s time (marginal reference), who lived at least 130 years before Ezra. Three or four names are probably missing in this place. Another name (Meraioth) may be supplied from 1 Chronicles 9:11, between Zadok and Ahitub Ezra 7:2. These additions would produce 27 generations - a number nearly sufficient - instead of 16 generations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

In the seventh year of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, Ezra goes up

to Jerusalem; and with him certain of the priests, Levites,

porters, and Nethinim: his character, 1-10.

The letter and decree of Artaxerxes in behalf of the Jews,

11-26.

Ezra's thanksgiving to God for these mercies, 27, 28.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse Ezra 7:1. In the reign of Artaxerxes — This was Artaxerxes Longimanus, the seventh of whose reign chronologers place A.M. 3547, sixty-eight years after Cyrus had sent back Zerubbabel. - Calmet. See the introduction.

Son of Seraiah — Either this could not have been Seraiah the high priest, who had been put to death by Nebuchadnezzar one hundred and twenty-one years before this time, or the term son here must signify only his descendants, or one of his descendants. Were it otherwise, Ezra must now be at least one hundred and twenty-two years of age, supposing him to have been born in the year of his father's death; if, indeed Seraiah the high priest was his father; but this is evidently impossible. In this place there are only sixteen generations reckoned between Ezra and Aaron, but in 1 Chronicles 6:3; Ezra 6:4, c., there are not less than twenty-two. We must therefore supply the deficient generations from the above place, between Amariah son of Meraioth, 1 Chronicles 6:7, and Azariah the son of Johanan, 1 Chronicles 6:10. There are other discrepancies relative to genealogies in these historical books which it would be useless to investigate. On these differences much has been already said in different parts of this comment.


 
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