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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest Ezra 7:1–5, 6, 10, 21

Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, / the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, / the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest Nehemiah 12:36

and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Appoints a Fast Ezra 8:21

And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Commissioned by Artaxerxes, Returns to Jerusalem with a Large Group of Jews Ezra 7:8

Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Dedicates the Wall of Jerusalem Nehemiah 12:27–43

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres. / The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites, / from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Exhorts People to Put Away Their Heathen Wives Ezra 9:1

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Exhorts People to Put Away Their Heathen Wives Ezra 10:1–17

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well. / Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel. / So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: His Charge to the Priests Ezra 8:29

Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Reads the Law Nehemiah 8:1

At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Reforms Corruptions Ezra 10:1

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

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Ezra: A Famous Scribe and Priest: Reforms Corruptions Nehemiah 13:1

At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

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