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Shelemiah
SHELEMIAH (shĕl-ĕ-mī'a, Heb. shelemyâh, friend of the Lord )
SHELEMIAH shĕl’ ə mī’ ə (שֶׁלֶמְיָ֣הוּ or שֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֑הוּ; Yahweh has recompensed or restored). 1. A Korahite, of the tribe of Levi who was appointed keeper of the E door of the sanctuary in the reign of David (
2. Two members of priestly families who had contracted foreign marriages before Ezra’s reform and are included in the list of those who put away their wives and children and offered guilt offerings (
3. The father of Hananiah, who shared in the rebuilding of the wall under Nehemiah’s leadership (
4. A priest, one of three treasurers appointed by Nehemiah to oversee the collection and distribution of tithes for the support of the Levites (
5. The grandfather of Jehudi, who was the messenger of the princes to Jeremiah, commanding him to bring to them the scroll he had read to the people (
6. The son of Abdeel. He was one of three men commanded by Jehoiakim to seize Baruch and Jeremiah, a mission which proved unsuccessful (
7. The father of Irijah, a sentry at the Benjamin Gate who seized Jeremiah on suspicion of deserting to the Babylonians during a temporary lifting of the siege (
8. The father of Jucal, one of the princes who accused Jeremiah before Zedekiah of being a fifth columnist (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
shel-e-mi’-a, she-lem’-ya (shelemyah; Codex Vaticanus Selemia, Codex Alexandrinus (Selemias):
(1) One of the sons of Bani who married foreign wives in the time of Ezra (
(2) Father of Hananiah who restored part of the wall of Jerusalem (
(4) The father of Jehucal (or Jucal) in the reign of Zedekiah (
(5) The father of Irijah, the captain of the ward, who arrested Jeremiah as a deserter to the Chaldeans (
(6)
See Meshelemiah.
(7) Another of the sons of Bani who married foreign wives in the time of Ezra (
(8) Ancestor of Jehudi (
(9) Septuagint omits.) Son of Abdeel, one of the men sent by Jehoiakim to seize Baruch and Jeremiah after Baruch had read the "roll" in the king’s presence (
Horace J. Wolf