Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
Now on the fourth day was the silver ... weighed in the house of our God. They devoted the first-three days after their arrival in Jerusalem to repose; on the next, the treasures were weighed and handed over to the custody of the officiating priests of the temple. The returned exiles offered burnt offerings, and Ezra delivered the royal commission to the satraps and х pachªowt (H6347)] (cf. Ezra 5:3; Ezra 6:6; Nehemiah 3:7) inferior magistrates westward of the Euphrates - i:e., between that river and Judea, apparently the very locality where this provincial term is first found in use (1 Kings 10:15; 1 Kings 20:24; 2 Kings 18:24; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Chronicles 9:14); while the Levitical portion of them lent all the assistance they could in performing the additional work, which the arrival of so many new worshippers occasioned.