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Amariah
AMARIAH (ăm'a-rī'ah)
AMARIAH ăm’ ə rī’ ə (אֲמַרְיָ֣ה, and אֲמַרְיָ֨הוּ, the Lord has said). 1. A Levite in the line of Eleazar; son of Meraioth and grandfather of Zadok the priest (
2. A Levite in the line of Kohath, in David’s time (
3. A Levite in the line of Eleazar; son of Azariah; ministered in the Temple of Solomon (
4. High priest in the reign of Jehoshaphat (
5. Son of Shephatiah of Judah; an ancestor of Athaiah (
6. A Levite who lived during the reign of Hezekiah (
7. A Judahite; son of Bani who had married a foreign wife (
8. A priestly family that returned to Jerusalem and sealed the covenant under Nehemiah (
9. Ancestor of the prophet Zephaniah; son of Hezekiah (possibly the king) (
10. In KJV, ASV,
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(’amaryah and ’amaryahu, "the Lord has said"; compare HPN, 180, 285).
(1) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Meraioth and grandfather of Zadok (
(2) A Levite in the line of Kohath-Hebron referred to in
(3) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Azariah who "executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built" (
(4) Chief priest and judge "in all matters of Yahweh" appointed by Jehoshaphat (
(5) A descendant of Judah in the line of Perez and an ancestor of Ataiah who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile (
(6) A Levite and an assistant of Kore who was appointed by Hezekiah to distributed the "oblations of Yahweh" to their brethren (
(7) A son of Bani who had married a foreign woman (
(8) A priest who with Nehemiah sealed the covenant (
(9) An ancestor of Zephaniah, the prophet (