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Malkijah
MALCHIJAH (See MALKIJAH)
MALKIJAH, MALCHIAH (măl-kī'ja, măl- kī'a, Heb. malkîyâh, malkîâ, my king is the Lord)
MALCHIJAH, MALCHIAH măl kī ə (מַלְכִּיָּ֔ה, LXX Μελχ [ε, G1567] ια [ς], my king is Yah [the Lord]). A rather common Heb. theophoric name borne by numerous men of exilic and postexilic times who seem to be mostly priests or Levites and royalty. 1. In the Heb. text of
2. The name of the father of Pashhur, another nobleman who was among those persecuting the weeping prophet (
3. In a list of priests who were assigned to their duties, one is called Malchijah (
4. In another list of priests who stood giving thanks with Nehemiah, one finds another Malchijah in the house of God (
5. A Malchijah was among the priests who set their seal to the covenant of spiritual renewal Nehemiah had written (
6. A Levite whose name was Malchijah is given as ninth in the genealogy after Levi himself (
7. Among those who pledged themselves to put away their foreign wives there were two named Malchijah, one of the sons of Parosh (
8. Two men by this name made significant contributions to the task of repairing the wall under Nehemiah. Malchijah the son of Rechab repaired the Dung Gate (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(malkiyah, "Yah is king"; Melcheias, with variants):
(1) A Levite, descendant of Gershom, of those whom David set over the "service of sting" in the worship (
(2) The head of the 5th course of priests (
(3) One of the laymen who had taken "strange wives" during the exile (
(4) Another of the same name (
(5) Another under the same offense, son of Harim (
(6) One of the "repairers" who helped with the "tower of the furnaces" (
(7) Son of Rechab ruler of Beth-haccerem, repairer of the dung gate (
(8) A goldsmith who helped in building the walls of Jerusalem (
(9) One of those at Ezra’s left hand when he read the law (though possibly one of the above (
(10) One of the covenant signatories (
(11) The father of Pashhur (
(12) A priest, a singer at the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem under Ezra and Nehemiah (
(13) (malkiyahu as above with u ending): Son of Ham-melech (or, as
The King James Version spells "Malchiah" or "Malchijah" indifferently with "Melchiah" in