Ezra 7:27

²⁷Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem!

Ezra 7 marks a dramatic pivot in the post-exilic story. Nearly sixty years after the temple was rebuilt (Ezra 6), a new figure arrives: Ezra the scribe, a priest with the law of God in his heart and the Persian king's decree in his hand. The chapter traces his genealogy back to Aaro