Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
These are the priests - according to 5:7, "the chief of the priests," the heads of the 24 courses into which the priesthood were divided (1 Chronicles 24:1-20). Only four of the courses returned from the captivity (Nehemiah 7:39-42; Ezra 2:36-39). But these were divided by Zerubbabel, or Jeshua, into the original number of 24. Only 22 are enumerated here, and no more than 20 in Nehemiah 12:12-21. The discrepancy is owing to the extremely probable circumstance that two of the 24 courses had become extinct in Babylon; for none belonging to them are reported as having returned (Nehemiah 12:2-5). Hattush and Maadiah may be omitted in the account of those persons' families (Nehemiah 12:12), because these had no sons.
Shealtiel - or Salathiel.
Ezra. This was a different person from the pious and patriotic leader. If he were the same person, he must now Ezra. This was a different person from the pious and patriotic leader. If he were the same person, he must now have reached a very patriarchal age; and this longevity was doubtless owing to his eminent piety and temperance, which are greatly conducive to the prolongation of life, but, above all, to the special blessing of God, who had preserved and strengthened him for the accomplishment of the important work he was called to undertake in that critical period of the Church's history.