Meremoth

Meremoth is named among “the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua” (Nehemiah 12:1; Nehemiah 12:3), who were “the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua” (Nehemiah 12:7). In the days of Joiakim, the next high priest, the heads of the priestly fathers' households are listed under nearly the same names, and his house appears as “of Meraioth, Helkai” (Nehemiah 12:12; Nehemiah 12:15), Meraioth standing where the earlier list has Meremoth. He is distinct from Meremoth the son of Uriah, the priest who received the temple treasure in Ezra's day, some eighty years after the first return (Ezra 8:33).