The Priests who sealed.

_Nehemiah._ _Ezra_ ii. 2. _Nehemiah._

_Serajah._ _Serajah._

* _Azariah._

_Jeremiah._ _Jeremiah._

_Ezra._ _Ezra._ _Nehem._ 8.

* _Pashur._

_Amariah._ _Amariah._

_Malluch_: or _Melicu_, _Neh._ _Malchijah._
xii. 2, 14.

_Hattush_. _Hattush._

_Shechaniah_ or _Shebaniah_, _Shebaniah._
_Neh._ xii. 3, 14.

* _Malluch._

_Rehum_: or _Harim_, _ib._ 3, _Harim._
15.

_Meremoth._ _Meremoth._

_Iddo._ _Obadiah_ or _Obdia_.

* _Daniel._

_Ginnetho_: or _Ginnethon_, _Ginnethon._
_Neh._ xii. 4, 16.

* _Baruch._

* _Meshullam._

_Abijah._ _Abijah._

_Miamin._ _Mijamin._

_Maadiah._ _Maaziah._

_Bilgah._ _Bilgai._

_Shemajah._ _Shemajah._

_Jeshua._ _Jeshua._

_Binnui._ _Binnui._

_Kadmiel._ _Kadmiel._

_Sherebiah._ [Hebrew: shrbjh]. _Shebaniah._ [Hebrew: shbnjh].

_Judah_: or _Hodaviah_, _Hodijah._
_Ezra_ ii. 40. & iii. 9.
[Greek: Odouia]; _Septuag._

The _Levites_, _Jeshua_, _Kadmiel_, and _Hodaviah_ or _Judah_, here
mentioned, are reckoned chief fathers among the people who returned with
_Zerubbabel_, _Ezra_ ii. 40. and they assisted as well in laying the
foundation of the Temple, _Ezra_ iii. 9. as in reading the law, and making
and sealing the covenant, _Nehem._ viii. 7. & ix. 5. & x. 9, 10.

Comparing therefore the books of _Ezra_ and _Nehemiah_ together; the
history of the _Jews_ under _Cyrus_, _Cambyses_, and _Darius Hystaspis_, is
that they returned from captivity under _Zerubbabel_, in the first year of
_Cyrus_, with the Holy Vessels and a commission to build the Temple; and
came to _Jerusalem_ and _Judah_, every one to his city, and dwelt in their
cities untill the seventh month; and then coming to _Jerusalem_, they first
built the Altar, and on the first day of the seventh month began to offer
the daily burnt-offerings, and read in the book of the Law, and they kept a
solemn fast, and sealed a Covenant; and thenceforward the Rulers of