# Ezra — Biblical Genealogy & Biography

> Canonical URL: https://localhost/people/ezra-1-47/
> Markdown URL: https://localhost/people/ezra-1-47.md
> Role: Generation 48 • Child of Seraiah

## Summary

(Ezra 7:1)Ezra was the priest who returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity and recorded the events in the book of the Bible named Ezra.

## Scripture Chapters Mentioning Figure

- [1 Chronicles 4](https://localhost/bible/OT.1CH/4.md): "And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa."
- [Ezra 7](https://localhost/bible/OT.EZR/7.md)
- [Ezra 10](https://localhost/bible/OT.EZR/10.md): "Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore."
- [Nehemiah 8](https://localhost/bible/OT.NEH/8.md): "And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel."
- [Nehemiah 12](https://localhost/bible/OT.NEH/12.md): "Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,"

## Connected Knowledge Graph Entities

- [Seraiah (person)](https://localhost/people/seraiah-0-46.md) — child of
- [Levitical Priesthood & High Priests (concept)](https://localhost/wiki/levitical-priesthood.md) — features person
- [Babylonian Captivity & Post-Exilic Return (concept)](https://localhost/wiki/babylonian-exile-and-return.md) — features person
- [Apocrypha & Deuterocanonical Literature (concept)](https://localhost/wiki/deuterocanonical-apocrypha.md) — features person
- [Hilkiah (person)](https://localhost/people/hilkiah-0-44.md) — shared chapters (2)
- [Moses (person)](https://localhost/people/moses-2-25.md) — shared chapters (2)