Ezra 7:5
7:5 who was the son of Abishua, who was the son of Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar, who was the son of Aaron the chief priest.
Ezra 8:1
The Leaders Who Returned with Ezra
8:1 These are the leaders and those enrolled with them by genealogy who were coming up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Ezra 2:68
2:68 When they came to the
Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders
offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild
it on its site.
Ezra 8:16
8:16 So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan,
Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders, and Joiarib and Elnathan, who were teachers.
Ezra 9:3
9:3 When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and my robe and ripped out some of the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat down, quite devastated.
Ezra 9:6
9:6 I prayed,
“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
Ezra 1:5
The Exiles Prepare to Return to Jerusalem
1:5 Then the leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:12
3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders
– older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established
– were weeping loudly,
and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.
Ezra 4:2-3
4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders
and said to them, “Let us help you build,
for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him
from the time
of King Esarhaddon
of Assyria, who brought us here.”
4:3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right
to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the
Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”
Ezra 7:28
7:28 He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the
Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 8:17
8:17 I sent them to Iddo, who was the leader in the place called Casiphia. I told them
what to say to Iddo and his relatives,
who were the temple servants in
Casiphia, so they would bring us attendants for the temple of our God.
Ezra 10:16
10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out
by name men who were leaders in their family groups.
They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,