Ezra 7:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Artaxerxes — The same of whom he speaks, Ezra 6:14. The son — His grand — son. Here are divers persons omitted for brevity sake, which may be supplied out of 1 Chronicles 6:1-11. Ezra was not himself the high priest; but he was nearly related to him.

Ezra 7:1

1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,