Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
Ver. 1. Now these are the priests and the Levites] Ancestors to those that dedicated the walls; and here registered, as for honour's sake to themselves, so to show that their successors, now employed in this work, were true priests and Levites of a right descent and alloy.
That went up with Zerubbabel] Together with those that came afterwards with Ezra, Ezra 8:2,3; Ezra 8:18,19 .