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• Mered

  Mered is a man named in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4, where he is identified as a son of Ezrah. He is recorded as having married Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh.

• Heman

  Heman is a figure in the Old Testament books of 1 and 2 Chronicles, where he appears as a Levite worship leader in charge of temple music in the time of David. The same name also appears in the title of Psalm 88 and in 1 Kings 4.

• Ethan

  Ethan is the name of several Israelites in the Old Testament. It refers to "Ethan the Ezrahite," the wise man with whom Solomon is compared in 1 Kings; the figure named in the superscription of Psalm 89 as its author; and Ethan the Levite musician of 1 Chronicles.

• Psalm 88

  Psalm 88 is a lament psalm of the sons of Korah whose superscription identifies it as a "Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite." The psalmist cries out to God from suffering that has brought him near to death. The psalm is known for ending without comfort or praise, closing on the word "darkness."

• Psalm 89

  Psalm 89 is a fifty-two-verse poem that praises the everlasting nature of God's covenant with David and then, confronted with the collapse of the dynasty, laments and asks where that promise has gone. Its final verse is a doxology that closes Book III of the Psalms.

• Maschil

  Maschil is a Hebrew word that appears in the superscriptions (headings) of thirteen psalms. It derives from a root meaning "to understand" or "to be wise." It appears to designate a type of poem or a manner of singing, but its precise meaning is uncertain.

• Ezra

  Ezra is the fifteenth book of the Old Testament, a historical book recounting how the people of Judah who returned from the Babylonian exile rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem and restored their community around the Law.

• Ezra (Person)

  Ezra was a priest and scribe of Judah in the Persian period who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem and taught the law of Moses. He appears in Ezra 7–10, Nehemiah 8, and elsewhere.

• Ezra 2

  Ezra 2 is the list of those who first returned from the Babylonian exile to Jerusalem and Judah. It records the number of returnees by family, town, and office, gives the overall total, and notes the offerings given for rebuilding the temple.

• Ezra 6

  Ezra 6 is the chapter in which King Darius locates the decree of Cyrus and supports the rebuilding of the temple. The Jerusalem temple is completed in the sixth year of King Darius, and the people celebrate its dedication and keep the Passover.

• Ezra 3

  Ezra 3 recounts how the people who had returned from Babylon rebuilt the altar in Jerusalem, offered burnt offerings, and kept the Feast of Tabernacles, and how in the following year they laid the foundation of the temple amid both praise and weeping.

• Ezra 7

  Ezra 7 recounts how Ezra, a priest and scholar of the Law, went up from Babylon to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. The chapter includes the king's decree and Ezra's praise to God.

• Ezra 10

  Ezra 10 is the final chapter of the Book of Ezra. The people make a covenant to send away their foreign wives and the children born to them, and after a three-month investigation the chapter records a list of those who had married foreign women.

• Ezra 1

  In this chapter Cyrus king of Persia issues a decree in his first year permitting the exiles of Judah to return to Jerusalem and build the temple, and he returns to Sheshbazzar the temple vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away.

• Ezra 4

  Ezra 4 records how the returned exiles declined an offer from the surrounding inhabitants to help with the building, how opposition and accusations followed, and how work on the Jerusalem temple was halted until the second year of King Darius.

• Ezra 5

  Ezra 5 is the chapter in which Zerubbabel and Jeshua, moved by the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah, resume the halted construction of the temple, and Tatnai, governor of the province Beyond the River, writes to King Darius to ask whether the building has been authorized.

• Ezra 9

  Ezra 9 is the chapter in which Ezra, on hearing that the people and leaders who had returned to Jerusalem had intermarried with the surrounding foreign peoples, tears his garments in grief and, at the time of the evening sacrifice, offers a prayer confessing the sin of the whole people.

• Ezra 8

  Ezra 8 records the families who returned from Babylon with Ezra, the gathering of Levites and the fast at the river of Ahava, and the entrusting of the temple offerings, which were brought safely to Jerusalem.

• Ezra 7:10

  This verse records that Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, to keep it, and to teach it in Israel. Because it presents the sequence of study, practice, and teaching, it is frequently cited in discussions of the proper disposition of ministers of the Word and of teachers.

• Tabeel

  Tabeel was a man of the Persian period, mentioned in Ezra 4:7, who joined Bishlam and Mithredath in writing to King Artaxerxes in Aramaic. He is generally regarded as a different person from "the son of Tabeal" in Isaiah 7:6.