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Easton's Bible Dictionary
raised up or appointed by Jehovah.
(1) One of the "greater prophets" of the Old Testament, son of Hilkiah (q.v.),
a priest of Anathoth ( Jeremiah
1:1 ; 32:6
). He was called to the prophetical office when still young ( Jeremiah
1:6 ), in the thirteenth year of Josiah (B.C. 628). He left his native place,
and went to reside in Jerusalem, where he greatly assisted Josiah in his work
of reformation ( 2
Kings 23:1 - 25
). The death of this pious king was bewailed by the prophet as a national calamity
( 2
Chronicles 35:25 ). During the three years of the reign of Jehoahaz we find
no reference to Jeremiah, but in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the enmity
of the people against him broke out in bitter persecution, and he was placed apparently
under restraint ( Jeremiah
36:5 ). In the fourth year of Jehoiakim he was commanded to write the predictions
given to him, and to read them to the people on the fast-day. This was done by
Baruch his servant in his stead, and produced much public excitement. The roll
was read to the king. In his recklessness he seized the roll, and cut it to pieces,
and cast it into the fire, and ordered both Baruch and Jeremiah to be apprehended.
Jeremiah procured another roll, and wrote in it the words of the roll the king
had destroyed, and "many like words" besides ( Jeremiah
36:32 ).
He remained in Jerusalem, uttering from time to time his words of warning, but
without effect. He was there when Nebuchadnezzar besieged the city ( Jeremiah
37:4 , 37:5
), B.C. 589. The rumour of the approach of the Egyptians to aid the Jews in this
crisis induced the Chaldeans to withdraw and return to their own land. This, however,
was only for a time. The prophet, in answer to his prayer, received a message
from God announcing that the Chaldeans would come again and take the city, and
burn it with fire ( Jeremiah
37:7 , 37:8
). The princes, in their anger at such a message by Jeremiah, cast him into prison
( Jeremiah
37:15 - 38:13
). He was still in confinement when the city was taken (B.C. 588). The Chaldeans
released him, and showed him great kindness, allowing him to choose the place
of his residence. He accordingly went to Mizpah with Gedaliah, who had been made
governor of Judea. Johanan succeeded Gedaliah, and refusing to listen to Jeremiah's
counsels, went down into Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with him ( Jeremiah
43:6 ). There probably the prophet spent the remainder of his life, in vain
seeking still to turn the people to the Lord, from whom they had so long revolted
(Jeremiah
44). He lived till the reign of Evil-Merodach, son of Nebuchadnezzar, and
must have been about ninety years of age at his death. We have no authentic record
of his death. He may have died at Tahpanhes, or, according to a tradition, may
have gone to Babylon with the army of Nebuchadnezzar; but of this there is nothing
certain.
(2) A Gadite who joined David in the wilderness ( 1
Chronicles 12:10 ).
(3) A Gadite warrior ( 1
Chronicles 12:13 ).
(4) A Benjamite slinger who joined David at Ziklag ( 1
Chronicles 12:4 ).
(5) One of the chiefs of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan ( 1
Chronicles 5:24 ).
(6) The father of Hamutal ( 2
Kings 23:31 ), the wife of Josiah.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
exaltation of the Lord
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(whom Jehovah has appointed)
(1) was "the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in Anathoth." ( Jeremiah
1:1 )
History. --
He was called very young (B.C. 626) to the prophetic office, and prophesied forty-two
years; but we have hardly any mention of him during the eighteen years between
his call and Josiahs death, or during the short reign of Jehoahaz. During the
reigns of Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, B.C. 607-598, he opposed the Egyptian party,
then dominant in Jerusalem, and maintained that they only way of safety lay in
accepting the supremacy of the Chaldeans. He was accordingly accused of treachery,
and men claiming to be prophets had the "word of Jehovah" to set against his.
( Jeremiah 14:13 ; 23:7 ) As the danger from the Chaldeans became more threatening,
the persecution against Jeremiah grew hotter. ch. 18. The people sought his life;
then follows the scene in ( Jeremiah 19:10 - 13 ) he was set, however, "as a fenced
brazen wall," ch. ( Jeremiah 15:20 ) and went on with his work, reproving king
and nobles and people. The danger which Jeremiah had so long foretold at last
came near. First Jehoiakim, and afterwards his successor Jehoiachin, were carried
into exile, 2 Kings 24; but Zedekiah, B.C. 597-586, who was appointed by Nebuchadnezzar,
was more friendly to the prophet, though powerless to help him. The approach of
an Egyptian army, and the consequent departure of the Chaldeans, made the position
of Jeremiah full of danger, and he sought to effect his escape from the city;
but he was seized and finally thrown into a prison-pit to die, but was rescued.
On the return of the Chaldean army he showed his faith in Gods promises, and sought
to encourage the people by purchasing the field at Anathoth which his kinsman
Hanameel wished to get rid of. ( Jeremiah 32:6 - 9 ) At last the blow came. The
city was taken, the temple burnt. The king and his princes shared the fate of
Jehoiachin. The prophet gave utterance to his sorrow in the Lamentations. After
the capture of Jerusalem, B.C. 586, by the Chaldeans, we find Jeremiah receiving
better treatment; but after the death of Gedaliah, the people, disregarding his
warnings, took refuge in Egypt, carrying the prophet with them. In captivity his
words were sharper and stronger than ever. He did not shrink, even there, from
speaking of the Chaldean king once more as "the servant of Jehovah." ( Jeremiah
43:10 ) After this all is uncertain, but he probably died in Egypt.
Character. --
Canon Cook says of Jeremiah, "His character is most interesting. We find him sensitive
to a most painful degree, timid, shy, hopeless, desponding, constantly complaining
and dissatisfied with the course of events, but never flinching from duty...Timid
in resolve, he was unflinching in execution; as fearless when he had to face the
whole world as he was dispirited and prone to murmuring when alone with God. Judged
by his own estimate of himself, he was feeble, and his mission a failure; really,
in the hour of action and when duty called him, he was in very truth a defenced
city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land. ch. ( Jeremiah
1:18 ) he was a noble example of the triumph of the moral over the physical nature."
(It is not strange that he was desponding when we consider his circumstances.
He saw the nation going straight to irremediable ruin, and turning a deaf ear
to all warnings. "A reign of terror had commenced (in the preceding reign), during
which not only the prophets but all who were distinguished for religion and virtue
were cruelly murdered." "The nation tried to extirpate the religion of Jehovah;"
"Idolatry was openly established," "and such was the universal dishonesty that
no man trusted another, and society was utterly disorganized." How could one who
saw the nation about to reap the awful harvest they had been sowing, and yet had
a vision of what they might have been and might yet be, help indulging in "Lamentations"?
--ED.)
Seven other persons bearing the same name as the prophet are mentioned in the
Old Testament:--
(2) Jeremiah of Libnah, father of Hamutal wife of Josiah. ( 2 Kings 23:31 ) (B.C.
before 632.)
(3 - 5) Three warriors --two of the tribe of Gad-- in Davids army. ( 1 Chronicles
12:4 , 12:10 , 12:13 ) (B.C. 1061-53.)
(6) One of the "mighty men of valor" of the transjordanic half-tribe of Manasseh.
( 1 Chronicles 5:24 ) (B.C. 782.)
(7) A priest of high rank, head of the second or third of the twenty-one courses
which are apparently enumerated in ( Nehemiah 10:2 - 8 ; 12:1 , 12:12 ) (B.C.
446-410).
(8) The father of Jazaniah the Rechabite. ( Jeremiah 35:3 ) (B.C. before 606.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
jer-e-mi'-a:
(a) yirmeyahu, or
(b) shorter form, yirmeyah, both differently explained as "Yah establishes (so
Giesebrecht), whom Yahweh casts," i.e. possibly, as Gesenius suggests, "appoints"
(A. B. Davidson in HDB, II, 569a), and "Yahweh looseneth" (the womb); see BDB:
The form (b) is used of Jeremiah the prophet only in Jeremiah 27:1 ; 28:5 , 6
, 10 , 11 , 12 b, 15 ; 29:1 ; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 9:2, while the other is found 116
times in Jeremiah alone. In 1 Esdras 1:28 , 32 , 47 , 57 ; 2 Esdras 2:18, English
Versions of the Bible has "Jeremy," so the King James Version in 2 Macc 2:1 ,
5 , 7 ; Matthew 2:17 ; 27:9 ; in Matthew 16:14, the King James Version has "Jeremias,"
but the Revised Version (British and American) in 2 Maccabees and Matthew has
"Jeremiah."
(1) The prophet. See special article. Of the following, (2), (3) and (4) have
form (a) above; the others the form (b).
1. Name and Person:
The name of one of the greatest prophets of Israel. The Hebrew yirmeyahu, abbreviated
to yirmeyah, signifies either "Yahweh hurls" or "Yahweh founds." Septuagint reads
Iermias, and the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Jeremias. As this
name also occurs not infrequently, the prophet is called "the son of Hilkiah"
(Jeremiah 1:1), who is, however, not the high priest mentioned in 2 Kings 22 and
23, as it is merely stated that he was "of the priests that were in Anathoth"
in the land of Benjamin In Anathoth, now Anata, a small village 3 miles Northeast
of Jerusalem, lived a class of priests who belonged to a side line, not to the
line of Zadok (compare 1 Kings 2:26).
2. Life of Jeremiah:
Jeremiah was called by the Lord to the office of a prophet while still a youth
(Jeremiah 1:6) about 20 years of age, in the 13th year of King Josiah (Jeremiah
1:2 ; 25:3), in the year 627 BC, and was active in this capacity from this time
on to the destruction of Jerusalem, 586 BC, under kings Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim,
Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. Even after the fall of the capital city he prophesied
in Egypt at least for several years, so that his work extended over a period of
about 50 years in all. At first he probably lived in Anathoth, and put in his
appearance publicly in Jerusalem only on the occasion of the great festivals;
later he lived in Jerusalem, and was there during the terrible times of the siege
and the destruction of the city.
Although King Josiah was God-fearing and willing to serve Yahweh, and soon inaugurated
his reformation according to the law of Yahweh (in the 18th year of his reign),
yet Jeremiah, at the time when he was called to the prophetic office, was not
left in doubt of the fact that the catastrophe of the judgment of God over the
city would soon come (Jeremiah 1:11); and when, after a few years, the Book of
the Law was found in the temple (2 Kings 22 and 23), Jeremiah preached "the words
of this covenant" to the people in the town and throughout the land (Jeremiah
11:1 - 8 ; 17:19 - 27), and exhorted to obedience to the Divine command; but in
doing this then and afterward he became the object of much hostility, especially
in his native city, Anathoth. Even his own brethren or near relatives entered
into a conspiracy against him by declaring that he was a dangerous fanatic (Jeremiah
12:6). However, the condition of Jeremiah under this pious king was the most happy
in his career, and he lamented the latter's untimely death in sad lyrics, which
the author of Chronicles was able to use (2 Chronicles 35:25), but which have
not come down to our times.
Much more unfavorable was the prophet's condition after the death of Josiah. Jehoahaz-Shallum,
who ruled only 3 months, received the announcement of his sentence from Jeremiah
(Jeremiah 22:10). Jehoiakim (609-598 BC) in turn favored the heathen worship,
and oppressed the people through his love of luxury and by the erection of grand
structures (Jeremiah 22:13). In addition, his politics were treacherous. He conspired
with Egypt against his superior, Nebuchadnezzar. Epoch- making was the 4th year
of Jehoiakim , in which, in the battle of Carchemish, the Chaldeans gained the
upper hand in Hither Asia, as Jeremiah had predicted (Jermeiah 46:1 - 12). Under
Jehoiakim Jeremiah delivered his great temple discourse (Jeremiah 7-9; 10:17 -
25). The priests for this reason determined to have the prophet put to death (Jeremiah
26). However, influential elders interceded for him, and the princes yet showed
some justice. He was, however, abused by the authorities at the appeal of the
priests (Jeremiah 20). According to 36:1, he was no longer permitted to enter
the place of the temple. For this reason the Lord commanded him to collect his
prophecies in a bookroll, and to have them read to the people by his faithful
pupil Baruch (Jeremiah 36; compare Jeremiah 45). The book fell into the hands
of the king, who burned it. However, Jeremiah dictated the book a second time
to Baruch, together with new additions.
Jehoiachin or Coniah (Jeremiah 22:24), the son of Jehoiakim, after a reign of
3 months, was taken into captivity to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, together with
a large number of his nobles and the best part of the people (Jeremiah 24:1 ;
29:2), as the prophet had predicted (Jeremiah 22:20 - 30). But conditions did
not improve under Zedekiah (597-586 BC). This king was indeed not as hostile to
Jeremiah as Jehoiakim had been; but all the more hostile were the princes and
the generals, who were now in command after the better class of these had been
deported to Babylon. They continually planned rebellion against Babylon, while
Jeremiah was compelled to oppose and put to naught every patriotic agitation of
this kind. Finally, the Babylonian army came in order to punish the faithles s
vassal who had again entered into an alliance with Egypt. Jeremiah earnestly advised
submission, but the king was too weak and too cowardly as against his nobles.
A long siege resulted, which caused the direst sufferings in the life of Jeremiah.
The commanders threw him into a vile prison, charging him with being a traitor
(Jeremiah 37:11). The king, who consulted him secretly, released him from prison,
and put him into the "court of the guard" (Jeremiah37:17), where he could move
around freely, and could agai n prophesy. Now that the judgment had come, he could
again speak of the hopeful future (Jeremiah 32 ; 33). Also Jeremiah 30 and 31,
probably, were spoken about this time. But as he continued to preach submission
to the people, those in authority cast him into a slimy cistern, from which the
pity of a courtier, Ebed-melech, delivered him (Jeremiah 39:15 - 18). He again
returned to the court of the guard, where he remained until Jerusalem was taken.
After the capture of the city, Jeremiah was treated with great consideration by
the Babylonians, who knew that he had spoken in favor of their government (Jeremiah
39:11 ; 40:1). They gave him the choice of going to Babylon or of remaining in
his native land. He decided for the latter, and went to the governor Gedaliah,
at Mizpah, a man worthy of all confidence. But when this man, after a short time,
was murdered by conscienceless opponents, the Jews who had been left in Palestine,
becoming alarmed and fearing the vengeance of the Chaldeans, determined to emigrate
to Egypt. Jeremiah advised against this most earnestly, and threatened the vengeance
of Yahweh, if the people should insist upon their undertaking (Jeremiah 42:1).
But they insisted and even compelled the aged prophet to go with them (Jeremiah
43:1). Their first goal was Tahpanhes (Daphne), a town in Lower Egypt. At this
place he still continued to preach the word of God to his fellow-Israelites; compare
the latest of his preserved discourses in Jeremiah 43:8 - 13, as also the sermon
in Jeremiah 44, delivered at a somewhat later time but yet before 570 BC. At that
time Jeremiah must have been from 70 to 80 years old. He probably died soon after
this in Egypt. The church Fathers report that he was stoned to death at Daphne
by the Jews (Jerome, Adv. Jovin, ii, 37; Tertullian, Contra Gnost., viii; Pseudepiphan.
De Proph., chapter viii; Dorotheus, 146; Isidorus, Ort. et Obit. Patr., chapter
xxxviii). However, this report is not well founded. The same is the case with
the rabbinical tradition, according to which he, in company with Baruch, was taken
from Egypt to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, and died there (Cedher 'Olam Rabba' 26).
3. The Personal Character of Jeremiah:
The Book of Jeremiah gives us not only a fuller account of the life and career
of its author than do the books of the other prophets, but we also learn more
about his own inner and personal life and feelings than we do of Isaiah or any
other prophet. From this source we learn that he was, by nature, gentle and tender
in his feelings, and sympathetic. A decided contrast to this is found in the hard
and unmerciful judgment which it was his mission to announce. God made him strong
and firm and immovable like iron for his mission (Jeremiah 1:18 ; 15:20). This
contrast between his naturally warm personal feelings and his strict Divine mission
not rarely appears in the heart-utterances found in his prophecies. At first he
rejoiced when God spoke to him (Jeremiah 15:16); but soon these words of God were
to his heart a source of pain and of suffering (Jeremiah 15:17). He would have
preferred not to utter them; and then they burned in his breast as a fire (Jeremiah
20:7 ; 23:9). He personally stood in need of love, and yet was not permitted to
marry (Jeremiah 16:1 f). He was compelled to forego the pleasures of youth (Jeremiah
15:17). He loved his people as nobody else, and yet was always compelled to prophesy
evil for it, and seemed to be the enemy of his nation. This often caused him to
despair. The enmity to which he fell a victim, on account of his declaration of
nothing but the truth, he deeply felt; see his complaints (Jeremiah 9:1 ; 12:5
; 15:10 ; 17:14 - 18 ; 18:23, and often). In this sad antagonism between his heart
and the commands of the Lord, he would perhaps wish that God had not spoken to
him; he even cursed the day of his birth (Jeremiah 15:10 ; 20:14 - 18; compare
Job 3:1). Such complaints are to be carefully distinguished from that which the
Lord through His Spirit communicated to the prophet. God rebukes him for these
complaints, and demands of him to repent and to trust and obey Him (Jeremiah 15:19).
This discipline makes him all the more unconquerable. Even his bitter denunciations
of his enemies (Jeremiah 11:20 ; 15:15 ; 17:18 ; 18:21 - 23) originated in part
in his passionate and deep nature, and show how great is the difference between
him and that perfect Sufferer, who prayed even for His deadly enemies. But Jeremiah
was nevertheless a type of that Suffering Saviour, more than any of the Old Testament
saints. He, as a priest, prayed for his people, until God forbade him to do so
(Jeremiah 7:16 ; 11:14 ; 14:11 ; 18:20). He was compelled more than all the others
to suffer through the anger of God, which was to afflict his people. The people
themselves also felt that he meant well to them. A proof of this is seen in the
fact that the rebellious people, who always did the contrary of what he had commanded
them, forced him, the unwelcome prophet of God, to go along with them, to Egypt,
because they felt that he was their good genius.
4. The Prophecies of Jeremiah:
What Jeremiah was to preach was the judgment upon Judah. As the reason for this
judgment Jeremiah everywhere mentioned the apostasy from Yahweh, the idolatry,
which was practiced on bamoth, or the "high places" by Judah, as this had been
done by Israel. Many heathenish abuses had found their way into the life of the
people. Outspoken heathenism had been introduced by such men as King Manasseh,
even the sacrifice of children to the honor of Baal-Molech in the valley of Hinnom
(Jeremiah 7:31 ; 19:5 ; 32:35), and the worship of "the queen of heaven" (Jeremiah
7:18 ; 44:19). It is true that the reformation of Josiah swept away the worst
of these abominations. But an inner return to Yahweh did not result from this
reformation. For the reason that the improvement had been more on the surface
and outward, and was done to please the king, Jeremiah charges up to his people
all their previous sins, and the guilt of the present generation was yet added
to this (Jeremiah 16:11 f). Together with religious insincerity went the moral
corruption of the people, such as dishonesty, injustice, oppression of the helpless,
slander, and the like. Compare the accusations found in Jeremiah 5:1 , 7 , 26
; 6:7 , 13 ; 7:5 , 9 ; 9:2 , 6 , 8 ; 17:9 ; 21:12 ; 22:13 ; 23:10 ; 29:23 , etc.
Especially to the spiritual leaders, the priests and prophets, are these things
charged up.
The judgment which is to come in the near future, as a punishment for the sins
of the people, is from the outset declared to be the conquest of the country through
an enemy from abroad. In this way the heated caldron with the face from the North,
in the vision containing the call of the prophet (Jeremiah 1:13), is to be understood.
This power in the North is not named until the 4th year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah
25), where Nebuchadnezzar is definitely designated as the conqueror. It is often
thought, that, in the earlier years of his career, Jeremiah had in mind the Scythians
when he spoke of the enemies from the North, especially in Jeremiah 4 - 6. The
Scythians (according to Herodotus i.103) had, probably a few years before Jeremiah's
call to the prophetic office, taken possession of Media, then marched through
Asia Minor, and even forced their way as far as Egypt. They crossed through Canaan,
passing by on their march from East to West, near Beth-shean (Scythopolis). The
ravages of this fierce people probably influenced the language used by Jeremiah
in his prophecies (compare Jeremiah 4:11 ; 5:15 ; 6:3 , 22). But it is unthinkable
that Jeremiah expected nothing more than a plundering and a booty-seeking expedition
of the Scythian nomad hordes. Chariots, such as are described in Jeremiah 4:13,
the Scythians did not possess. Moreover, it must not be forgotten that Jeremiah
from the outset speaks of a deportation of his people to this foreign land (Jeremiah
3:18 ; 5:19), while an exile of Israel in the country of the Scythians was out
of the question. At all events from the 4th year of Jehoiakim, Jeremiah regards
the Chaldeans as the enemy who, according to his former announcement, would come
from the North It is possible that it was only in the course of time that he reached
a clear conviction as to what nation was meant by the revelation from God. But,
upon further reflection, he must have felt almost certain on this subject, especially
as Isaiah (Isaiah 39:6), Micah (Micah 4:10), and, soon after these, Habakkuk had
named Babylon as the power that was to carry out the judgment upon Israel. Other
prophets, too, regard the Babylonians as belonging to the northern group of nations
(compare Zechariah 6:8), because they always came from the North, and because
they were the legal successors of the Assyrians.
In contrast to optimistic prophets, who had hoped to remedy matters in Israel
(Jeremiah 6:14), Jeremiah from the beginning predicted the destruction of the
city and of the sanctuary, as also the end of the Jewish nation and the exile
of the people through these enemies from abroad. According to Jeremiah 25:11 ;
29:10 , the Babylonian supremacy (not exactly the exile) was to continue for 70
years; and after this, deliverance should come. Promises to this effect are found
only now and then in the earlier years of the prophet (Jeremiah 3:14 ; 12:14 ;
16:14 f). However, during the time of the siege and afterward, such predictions
are more frequent (compare Jeremiah 23:1 ; 24:6 ; 47:2 - 7; and in the "Book of
Comfort," chapters Jeremiah 30 - 33).
What characterizes this prophet is the spiritual inwardness of his religion; the
external theocracy he delivers up to destruction, because its forms were not animated
by God-fearing sentiments. External circumcision is of no value without inner
purity of heart. The external temple will be destroyed, because it has become
the hiding-place of sinners. External sacrifices have no value, because those
who offer them are lacking in spirituality, and this is displeasing to God. The
law is abused and misinterpreted (Jeremiah 8:8); the words of the prophets as
a rule do not come from God. Even the Ark of the Covenant is eventually to make
way for a glorious presence of the Lord. The law is to be written in the hearts
of men (Jeremiah 31:31). The glories of the Messianic times the prophet does not
describe in detail but their spiritual character he repeatedly describes in the
words "Yahweh our righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6 ; 33:16). However, we must not
over-estimate the idealism of Jeremiah. He believed in a realistic restoration
of theocracy to a form, just as the other prophets (compare Jeremiah 31 - 32 ,
38 - 40).
As far as the form of his prophetic utterances is concerned, Jeremiah is of a
poetical nature; but he was not only a poet. He often speaks in the meter of an
elegy; but he is not bound by this, and readily passes over into other forms of
rhythms and also at times into prosaic speech, when the contents of his discourses
require it. The somewhat monotonous and elegiac tone, which is in harmony with
his sad message to the people, gives way to more lively and varied forms of expression,
when the prophet speaks of other and foreign nations. In doing this he often makes
use of the utterances of earlier prophets.
5 - 7. (SEE JEREMIAH,
THE BOOK OF) |
(2) Father of Hamutal (Hamital), the mother of King Jehoahaz and King Jehoiakim
(2 Kings 23:31 ; 24:18 parallel Jeremiah 52:1).
(3) A Rechabite (Jeremiah 35:3).
(4) In 1 Chronicles 12:13 (Hebrew 14), a Gadite.
(5) In 1 Chronicles 12:10 (Hebrew 11), a Gadite.
(6) In 1 Chronicles 12:4 (Hebrew 5), a Benjamite(?) or Judean. (4), (5) and (6)
all joined David at Ziklag.
(7) Head of a Manassite family (1 Chronicles 5:24).
(8) A priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:2), probably the
same as he of Nehemiah 12:34 who took part in the procession at the dedication
of the walls of Jerusalem.
(9) A priest who went to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel from exile and became head
of a priestly family of that name (Nehemiah 12:1).
C. von Orelli
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