📌Ara (who returned with Nehemiah)

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One of the people who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and Nehemiah (governor).

Ezra 2:5The descendants of Arah: 775.
Neh 7:10The descendants of Arah: 652.

It became a problem when he took Tobiah (the Ammonite), an adversary of Nehemiah (governor), as his son-in-law.

Neh 6:18For many in Judah were bound by oath to Tobiah, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

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