Ezra 7:24

Nethinims R.V. Nethinim, cf. Ezra 2:43.

ministers R.V. servants. The word in the original connected with that rendered "service" (Ezra 7:19). The expression "or servants" would cover any other branch (e.g. Solomon's servants, Ezra 2:55) of attendants on the Temple.

toll, tribute, or custom R.V. tribute, custom, or toll. See on Ezra 5:13.

Compare immunity from all taxation described by Josephus as having been granted to the priests and Levites by Antiochus the Great (Ant.XII. 3. 3), "And let the senate and the priests and the scribes of the Temple and the sacred singers be discharged from all poll-money and he crown tax, and other taxes also." (Tran. Whiston.)