9. One of the Levites in the reign of Hezekiah who were placed in the cities of the priests to distribute the tithes among their brethren (2 Chron. xxxi, 15). B.C. 726. He was perhaps identical with No. 8.
10. A chief Levite in the reign of Josiah who, with his brethren Conaniah and Nethaneel, contributed sac- rifices for the Passover (2 Chron. xxxv, 9). B.C. 628.
11. Father of the prophet Urijah of Kirjath-jeariin (Jer. xxvi, 20). B.C. ante 608.
12. Father of Delaiah, which latter was one of the princes who heard Baruch's roll (Jer. xxxvi, 12). B.C. ante 605.
13. A Nehelamite and a false prophet in the time of Jeremiah. B.C. 606. He ])rophesicd to the people of the captivity in the name of Jehovah, and attempted to counteract the intluence of Jeremiah's advice that they should settle quietly in the land of their exile, build houses, plant vineyards, and wait patiently for the period of their return at the end of seventy years. His animosity to Jeremiah exhiliiteil itself in the more ac- tive form of a letter to the high-priest Zephaniah, urg- ing hira to exercise the functions of his office and laj'
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the prophet in prison and in the stocks. The letter was reaii liv Zephaniah to Jeremiah, who instantly pro- nomioeii the message of doom against Shemaiah for his ))resumption that he shonlil liave none of his family to dwell among the people, and that himself shonld not live to see their return from captivity (Jer. xxix, 24- 3-2). — Smith. See Jkkkmiah.
14. A chief priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh. Kn,C>, 18). B.C. 536. He lived to sign the sacred covenant with Nehemiah (x, 8). B.C. 410.
15. One of the three " last sons" (i. e. supplementary heads of families) of Adonikam who returned with sixty males from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra viii, 13). B.C. 459.
16. One of the " heads" of the Jewish families whom Ezra sent for to his camp by the river of Ahava, for the ]inrpose ofol)taining Levites and ministers for the Tem- ple from " the place Casiphia" (Ezra viii, 1(5). B.C. 459.
17. One of the ]iriests of the "sons of Ilarim" who renounced their Gentile wives after the captivitj' (Ezra X, '21). B.C. 458. (Comp. No. 18.)
18. An Israelite of the " sons of Harim" who divorced his Gentile wife after the captivity (Ezra x, 31). B.C. 458. (See Mo. 17.)
19. A priest, son of IMattaniah (q.v.) and father of Jonathan in the lineage of "Asaph" (Neh. xii, 35). B.C. ante 44G.
20. Son of Galal and father of the Levite Obadiah (or Abda) who " dwelt in the villages of the Netopha- thites" after the return from Babylon (1 Chron. ix, 16). B.C. ante 446. He is elsewhere (Neh. xi, 17) called Shammua (q. v.).
21. Son of Shechaniah and keeper of the east gate at Jerusalem, who assisted in repairing the wall after the captivity (Neh. iii, 29). B.C. 446.
22. Son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, a prophet in the time of Nehemiah who was bribed by Sanballat and his confederates to frighten the Jews from their task of rebuilding the wall, and to put Nehemiah in fear. In his assumed terror, he appears to have shut up his house and to have proposed that all should retire into the Temple and close the doors (Neh. vi, 10). B.C. 446.
23. Son of Ilasshub, a Merarite Levite who lived in Jerusalem after the captivity (1 Chron. ix, 14), and one of those who had oversight of the outward business of the liouse of God (Neh. xi, 15). B.C. 446.
24. One of the princes of Judah who was in the jirocession that went towards the south when the two thanksgiving companies celebrated the solemn dedica- tion of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. xii, 34). B.C. 446.
25. One of the choir who took part in the procession with which the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem by Ezra w.is accompanied (Neh. xii, 36). B.C. 446. He ai)|)ears to have been a (iershonite Levite, and de- scendant of Asaph, for reasons which are given under Mattaniaii 8.
26. One of the priests who blew with trumpets in the procession upon the newly comfileted walls of Jeru- salem after the ca|)tivity (Neh. xii, 42). B.C. 446.
27. The son of Shechaniah and father of five sons among the descendants of Zerubbabel (1 Chron. iii, 22). He was possibly the same with No. 21. Lord Hervey {(iencdl. p. 107) uncritically proposes to omit the words at the beginning of 1 Cliron. iii, 22 as spurious, and to consiilcr Shemaiah identical with Sliimei (([.v.), the brother of Zerubbabel (ver. 19). Tliis Slicmaiab seems tr) be the same as the Scmei of Luke iii, 26. B.C. cir. 380. See (iicNKAi.oGY ok Ciikist.
Shemaii'ah (Heb. Shnnai-yali', il^";'2Tl", l-cpt of Ji/iora/i; or, in the prolonged form [1 (jhron. xii, 5], ShcnKirya'hii, in^l^TI." ; Sept. "^ai^iafiiii, v. r. yi(ifiaf)tict, '^cificifxila, 'iH'ifiofiia), the name of four Heijrews.
1. One of the valiant Benjamitcs who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii, 5). B.C. 1054.
2. IMiddle named of the three sons of Hehoboam by his second wife, Abihail (2 Chron. xi, 19, A. V. " Shama- riah"). B.C. cir. 973.
3. A layman of the " sons of Harira" who divorced his Gentile wife after the captivity (Ezra x, 32). B.C. 458.