Ezra 7:5
“The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:”
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.
Counter-Arguments
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Related Verses
“And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,”
“Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,”
“And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.”
“The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,”
“Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.”