Meremoth

One of the head priest accompanying Zerubbabel from Babylon to Jerusalem in 537 B.C.E..A priestly paternal house of the next generation is named Meraioth and it is possible that Meremoth was its founder.The names are rather similar as written in Hebrew characcters.Son of Urijah and a prominent priest in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.When Ezra and a Jewish remnant came to Jerusalem from Babylon in 486B.C.E. Meremoth was among the priest into whose hands they proceeded to weigh out the silver and gold and the utensils in the house of God.Meremoth was a descendant of Hakkoz,some of whose descendants could not establish their genealogy.But that the division of the family to which he belonged could verify its lineage is evident ,since Meremoth shared in the priestly functions .He also took part in doign repair work on Jerusalem’s wall under Nehemiah’s  supervision.A priest or the forefather of one of those attesting by seal the trustworthy arrangement of Nehemiah’s day.An Israelite among the sons of Bani who had accepted foreign wives but sent them away along with sons in Ezra’s day.