Ezra’s genealogy, Ezr_7:1-5. The priests, Levites, and Ezra go up to Jerusalem, Ezr_7:6-10. The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra, Ezr_7:1-26. Ezra blesseth God for his favour to his people, Ezr_7:27,28.
Artaxerxes; the same of whom he speaks Ezr_6:14. The son of Seraiah, i.e. his grandson. Here are divers persons omitted for brevity sake, which may be supplied out of 1Ch 6$ 1Ch 7 1Ch 8 1Ch 9.