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Ezra 7:2

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the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

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the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

KJV

The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

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This verse in Ezra 7

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Now after these things

on Ezra 7:1-5

Now after these things marks a silence of roughly six decades between the temple's dedication in chapter 6 and Ezra's arrival under Artaxerxes, a gap the book does not narrate though the Esther story falls inside it. Ezra's pedigree runs unbroken to Aaron the chief priest, Wesley noting that several generations are omitted for brevity and may be supplied from 1 Chronicles 6. The line matters because Ezra 2:62 has already put priests without a recorded father's house out of the priesthood, so this scribe's credentials stand beyond question before he opens his mouth.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 2:35

    And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 2:27

      So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

    • 1 Chronicles 29:22

      That day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler,…

    • 1 Kings 4:4

      Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

    • 1 Chronicles 24:3

      With the help of Eleazar’s descendant Zadok and Ithamar’s descendant Ahimelech, David divided them according to the offices of their service.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 8:17

    Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 18:16

      Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

    • 1 Chronicles 6:8

      Ahitub was the father of Zadok, Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

    • 1 Chronicles 16:39

      And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

    • 1 Chronicles 24:3–4

      With the help of Eleazar’s descendant Zadok and Ithamar’s descendant Ahimelech, David divided them according to the offices of their service.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezra

Artaxerxes Grants Freedom to the Jews — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Artaxerxes Grants Freedom to the Jews — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.

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