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Zerahiah

Levite priest in the Aaronite lineage recorded in Chronicles and Ezra, linking Phinehas to Meraioth and ultimately to Ezra.

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Who is this?

Zerahiah appears in the priestly genealogies as a descendant of through and the ancestor of Meraioth. The lineage is recorded in 1 Chronicles 6 as part of the Aaronite line that served at the tabernacle and temple. Ezra 7 traces Ezra's own priestly ancestry through this same line, placing Zerahiah several generations back in that sequence. He is a genealogical link figure with no narrative episode attached to his name in the text.

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