Person Old Testament
Eleazar
Eleazar, son of Parosh, was among those who put away their foreign wives during Ezra's reforms. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:25.
Why it matters. Son of Parosh, put away his foreign wife
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Eleazar
Eleazar is mentioned in Ezr.10.25 as one of the descendants of Parosh who had married foreign women. During the time of Ezra, many Israelites, including priests and Levites, had intermarried with the pagan inhabitants of the land. Ezra called for a reform, urging those who had married foreign wives to separate from them. Eleazar was among those who agreed to put away their foreign wives and children, demonstrating repentance and obedience to God's law.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)