{"id":776,"date":"2020-03-20T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2020-03-20T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:45:18","slug":"ezra-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Ezra 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ezra 7:1-10 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years later, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, there\nwas a man named Ezra. He was the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of\nHilkiah, <\/strong>son of\nShallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, <\/strong>son of Amariah, son of Azariah,\nson of Meraioth, <\/strong>son of Zerahiah,\nson of Uzzi, son of Bukki, <\/strong>son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son\nof Aaron the high priest. <\/strong>This Ezra was a scribe who was well versed in the Law\nof Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given to the people of\nIsrael. He came up to Jerusalem from Babylon, and the king gave him everything\nhe asked for, because the gracious hand of the LORD his God was on him. <\/strong>Some of the people of Israel, as\nwell as some of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and Temple\nservants, traveled up to Jerusalem with him in the seventh year of King\nArtaxerxes\u2019 reign. <\/strong>Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in August of that year. <\/strong>He had arranged to leave Babylon\non April 8, the first day of the new year, and he arrived at Jerusalem on\nAugust 4, for the gracious hand of his God was on him. <\/strong>This was because Ezra had\ndetermined to study and obey the Law of the LORD and to teach those decrees and\nregulations to the people of Israel. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find that when a list of names is given, there\u2019s a meaning\nto the list. Here are the definitions and what they mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artaxerxes = “I\nwill make the spoiled to boil: I will stir myself (in) winter”
\nShallum = “retribution”  
\nZadok = “righteous”  
\nAhitub = “my brother is good (goodness)”
\nAmariah = “Jehovah speaks” or “Yah(u) has promised”
\nMeraioth = “rebellious”  
\nZerahiah = “Jehovah has risen”  \n
\nUzzi = “strong”  
\nBukki = “wasting”
\nAbishua = “my father is rescue (safety), or is opulence”
\nPhinehas = “mouth of brass”
\nEleazar = “God has helped” 
\nAaron = “light bringer”   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how I read the names. It\u2019s not authoritative, just\nsome thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus brought the light to the world (John 8:12) through God\u2019s help (John 3:17). He spoke judgement (Matt 12:34). My father rescued Him from wasting (corruption in the grave) (Psa 16:10, Acts 2:27), and made Him strong (Psa 118:14) rising Him from the dead (Acts 5:30) and defeated the rebellious (Psa 82:6-7) and the Father spoke (Matt 17:5) and promised us to be counted good and righteous (John 3:16) while taking retribution against the enemy and spoiling (Col 2:15) them into a frenzy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ezra 7:1-10 Many years later, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, there was a man named Ezra. He was the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hebrewgems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdicate.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}