Ezra Comes to Jerusalem

7 After these things, during the rule of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra came up [^CEzra’s coming is not actually stated until v. 6] from Babylon [^Cif this refers to Artaxerxes I, then chapter seven takes place around 458 bc, about fifty-eight years after chapter six, but some date the events differently] as the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, ² the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,