Key Verse Spotlight
Ezra 7:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:”
Ezra 7:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he {was} a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
And there went up {some} of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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