Priest living at the time of Exile and Return
Ezra
A priest and scribe of the line of Aaron, the son of Seraiah, who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem in the reign of Artaxerxes, “a skilled scribe in the law of Moses” (Ezra 7:1–6). “Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel” (Ezra 7:10). He led a company home, fasting and praying for safe travel, and was grieved to find that many had married foreign wives, and led the people in repentance (Ezra 7–10). Later he read the law of Moses aloud to the people at the Water Gate, and the Levites explained its meaning (Nehemiah 8:1–8).
Family
- Father
- Seraiah