these. Nehemiah had given the heads of families (Nehemiah 7:6-73) and the numbers of the four classes of priests (Nehemiah 7:39-42). Compare Ezra 2:36-39. Here he inserts twenty-two names, the heads of priests' classes, or courses formed out of these four, "in the days of Jeshua" (Nehemiah 12:7). See Ezra 6:18.
Ezra. Not th. Ezra of the book of Ezra.