Ezra 7:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In the reign of Artaxerxes The same of whom he speaks chap. Ezra 6:14. Ezra the son of Seraiah Descended from him, but not immediately. For Seraiah, being high-priest when Jerusalem was taken was then slain by the Chaldeans, (2 Kings 25:18; 2 Kings 25:21,) at which time, it is likely, Ezra was not in being: but he was his grandson, or great-grand-son, and his descent is mentioned from him, because he was an eminent person, who flourished before the destruction of the temple, whereas Ezra's father, if not also his grandfather, lived obscurely in captivity.