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Shemaiah

Shemaiah (heard by Jehovah). 1. A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam. (1Kings 12:22; 2Chronicles 11:2) (B.C. 972.) He wrote a chronicle containing the events of Rehoboam’s reign. (2Chr 12:5; 2Chr 12:15) 2. The s...

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Shemaiah (heard by Jehovah).

1. A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam. (1Kings 12:22; 2Chronicles 11:2) (B.C. 972.) He wrote a chronicle containing the events of Rehoboam’s reign. (2Chr 12:5; 2Chr 12:15)

2. The son of Shechaniah, among the descendants of Zerubbabel. (1Chronicles 3:23; Nehemiah 3:28)

3. A prince of the tribe of Simeon. (1Chronicles 4:27)

4. Son of Joel, Reubenite. (1Chronicles 5:4) (B.C. after 1706.)

5. Son of Hasshub, a Merarite Levite. (1Chronicles 9:14; Nehemiah 11:15)

6. Father of Obadiah or Abda, a Levite. (1Chronicles 9:16)

7. Son of Elizaphan, and chief of his house in the reign of David. (1Chr 15:8; 1Chr 15:11) (B.C. 1043.)

8. A Levite, son of Nethaneel and also a scribe in the time of David. (1Chronicles 24:6) (B.C. 1014.)

9. The eldest son of Obed-edom the Gittite. (1Chr 26:4; 1Chr 26:6; 1Chr 26:7) (B.C. 1014.)

10. A descendant of Jeduthun the singer who lived in the reign of Hezekiah (2Chronicles 29:14)

11. One of the sons of Adonikam who returned with Ezra. (Ezra 5:13)

12. One of Ezra’s messengers. (Ezra 8:16)

13. A priest of the family of Harim, who put away his foreign wife at Ezra’s bidding. (Ezra 10:21) (B.C. 455.)

14. A layman of Israel son of another Harim, who had also married a foreigner. (Ezra 10:31) (B.C. 458.)

15. Son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, a prophet in the time of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 6:10) (B.C. 446.)

16. The head of a priestly house who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:8; Neh 12:6; Neh 12:18) (B.C. 410.)

17. One of the princes of Judah at the time of the dedication of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:34)

18. One of the choir on the same occasion. (Nehemiah 12:38)

19. A priest. (Nehemiah 12:42)

20. A false prophet in the time of Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 1:29-32)

21. A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2Chronicles 17:8) (B.C. 909.)

22. A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2Chronicles 31:15) (B.C. 726.)

23. A Levite in the reign of Josiah. (2Chronicles 35:9) (B.C. 628.)

24. The father of Urijah of Kirjath-jearim. (Jeremiah 26:20) (B.C. before 608.)

25. The father of Delaiah. (Jeremiah 36:12) (B.C. before 605.)

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