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Shephatiah
SHEPHATIAH (shĕf'a-tī'a, Heb. shephatyâh, the Lord is judge)
SHEPHATIAH shef ə ti’ ə (שְׁפַטְיָ֥ה, Jehovah has judged). 1. Fifth son of David while he dwelt in Hebron. His mother was Abital (
2. A Benjaminite, the father of Meshullam and son of Reuel. Meshullam, a head of his father’s house, was one of the first to return to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Captivity (
3. A Benjaminite from Haruph, who joined David’s band while the latter dwelt at Ziklag to escape Saul’s attempt to take him (
4. The son of Maacah, a prince over Simeonites while David was king (
5. A son of Jehoshaphat and brother of Jehoram whom Jehoshaphat made his successor as king of Judah (
6. The father of a family, 372 of whom returned to Jerusalem from Babylon in the return under Joshua and Zerubbabel in 538 b.c. (
7. Solomon’s servant whose descendants were among the 392 returning to Jerusalem under Joshua and Zerubbabel in 538 b.c. (
8. A descendant of Perez and son of Mahalalel. Shephatiah’s descendant, Athaiah, a Judahite, dwelt in Jerusalem at the time of Nehemiah (
9. The son of Mattan and a contemporary of Jeremiah, who witnessed Jeremiah’s warning concerning the Babylonian Captivity. The verdict of the princes was that Jeremiah was worthy of death (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
shef-a-ti’-a, she-fat’-ya (shephaTyah, "Yah has judged"):
(1) A son of David, by Abital (
(2) A Benjamite, father of Meshullam, of Jerusalem (
(3) A Benjamite, who joined David at Ziklag (
(4) A prince of the Simeonites in the time of David (
(5) A son of King Jehoshaphat (
(6) A family, 372 of whom returned with Zerubbabel (
(7) A servant of Solomon, 392 of whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel (
(8) A Perezzite (Judahite), some of whose descendants dwelt at Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (
(9) A son of Mattan, a contemporary of Jeremiah (