Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezra 8:1

"Now these are the heads of their fathers` [houses], and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:" — Ezra 8:1 (ASV)

A list of the chief names, given by families, of those who accompanied Ezra.

(1) This is the genealogy.—The names of the heads of houses are generally followed by that of the wider families they belonged to. With this list is to be compared the register of those who went up with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2 and following).