Ezra 2:2

Zerubbabel] for his relation to Sheshbazzar see on Ezra 1:8 for his ancestry see on Ezra 3:2. The list of names that follows is repeated, with some variants, in Nehemiah 7:7. Jeshua] the high priest, called by Haggai 'Joshua.' The names in this v. number 11, but in the corresponding passage in Neh (Nehemiah 7:7) they amount to 12, and are probably intended to be symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel (cp. Ezra 6:17), the number of which was recalled at a later date by the 12 he-goats offered as a sin-offering at the dedication of the restored Temple (Ezra 6:17), and by the sacrifices described in Ezra 8:35 : cp. also the expression 'all Israel' in Ezra 2:70. Nehemiah] not the Nehemiah of Nehemiah 1:1.

3-9. The names in these vv. are those of families.