Ezr 7:1 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Ezra 7:1-5: 7:1-5 Ezra highlights his standing by listing his own genealogy through Zadok, priest under Solomon (1 Kgs 2:35 ), all the way back to Aaron the high priest , Moses’ brother. This list is clearly abbreviated: It has only sixteen generations from Aaron to eighty years after the Exile, while 1 Chr 6:3-15 has twenty-three generations from Aaron to the Exile. 7:1 Many years later: Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in 458 BC (7:7-8 ), about fifty-seven years after the dedication of the second Temple. Ezra has been recording events that occurred before his time, but now he begins to record his own history. • son: In biblical genealogies, the Hebrew word translated son often means descendant. • Seraiah was high priest under Zedekiah; he was executed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC (2 Kgs 25:18-21 ).

b1 Kgs 2:35►

c1 Chr 6:3-15►

f2 Kgs 25:18-21►

‏ Ezra 7:1

Summary for Ezra 7:1-5: 7:1-5 ^a Ezra highlights his standing by listing his own genealogy through Zadok, priest under Solomon (1 Kgs 2:35 ^b), all the way back to Aaron the high priest, Moses’ brother. This list is clearly abbreviated: It has only sixteen generations from Aaron to eighty years after the Exile, while 1 Chr 6:3-15 ^c has twenty-three generations from Aaron to the Exile. 7:1 ^d Many years later: Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in 458 BC (7:7-8 ^e), about fifty-seven years after the dedication of the second Temple. Ezra has been recording events that occurred before his time, but now he begins to record his own history.

• son: In biblical genealogies, the Hebrew word translated son often means descendant.

• Seraiah was high priest under Zedekiah; he was executed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC (2 Kgs 25:18-21 ^f).