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Seraiah
SERAIAH (sē-rā'ya, Heb. serāyāhû)
SERAIAH sĭ rā’ yə (שְׂרָיָ֖ה , שְׂרָיָ֣הוּ ; in Gr. of Apoc. transliterated Σαραία, Σαρεά, Jahweh has persisted.) KJV Apoc. SARAIAS—yes. 1. David’s scribe (
2. A son of Azariah and high priest at 587 (6) b.c. when Jerusalem was captured and destroyed by the Babylonians. He was seized and put to death at Riblah by Nebuchadnezzar, prob. not for anything he had done, but because he was a symbol of Heb. autonomy (
3. The son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite. One of a number of captains who submitted to Gedaliah at Mizpah when Gedaliah was made governor by Nebuchadnezzar. Gedaliah advised them to accept Babylonian rule (
4. A second son of Kenaz (
5. A Simeonite prince, the son of Asiel (
6. One of the returnees who accompanied Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (
7. One of the signers of the covenant of Ezra (
8. A priest, son of Hilkiah, who served as “ruler of the house of God” in Jerusalem (
9. The son of Azriel, an officer of king Jehoiakim in 604 b.c. who was commanded to arrest Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch (
10. A Judean prince who served as quartermaster. He was a son of Neriah. He went with Zedekiah to Babylon in the king’s fourth year (594). He conveyed Jeremiah’s prophecy to Babylon. When Jeremiah’s prophecy was read, the scroll was to be submerged in the Euphrates (
Bibliography
T. Laetsch, Bible Commentary: Jeremiah (1952); E. Leslie, Jeremiah (1954); J. Bright, Anchor Bible: Jeremiah (1965).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
se-ra’-ya, se-ri’-a (serayahu, "Yah hath prevailed"; Septuagint Saraias, or Saraia):
(1) Secretary of David (
(2) A high priest in the reign of Zedekiah; executed with other prominent captives at Riblah by order of Nebuchadnezzar (
(3) The son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and one of the heroic band of men who saved themselves from the fury of Nebuchadnezzar when he stormed Jerusalem. They repaired to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, but killed him on account of his allegiance to the Chaldeans (
(4) Son of Kenaz, and younger brother of Othniel, and father of Joab, the chief of Ge-harashim (
(5) Grandfather of Jehu, of the tribe of Simeon (
(6) A priest, the third in the list of those who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (
(7) Son of Azriel, one of those whom Jehoiakim commanded to imprison Jeremiah and Baruch, the son of Neriah (
(8) The son of Neriah, who went into exile with Zedekiah. He was also called Sar Menuchah ("prince of repose"). The Targum renders Sar Menuchah by Rabh Tiqrabhta, "prince of battle, and Septuagint by archon doron, "prince of gifts," reading Minchah for Menuchah. At the request of Jeremiah he carried with him in his exile the passages containing the prophet’s warning of the fall of Babylon, written in a book which he was bidden to bind to a stone and cast into the Euphrates, to symbolize the fall of Babylon (
Horace J. Wolf