1. (Sept. 'LciKyovp v. r. Xawovp-) Ninth named of the ten sons of Jehiel, the father or founder of Gibeon (1 Chron. ix, 37). B.C. cir. 1G18. In 1 Chron. viii, 31 he is called Zaciier (q. v.).
2. Son of Meshelemiah, or Shelemiah, a Korhite, and keeper of the north gate of the tabernacle of the congregation (I Chron. ix, 21) in the arrangement of the porters in the reigii of David. B.C. 1043. In 1 Chron. xxvi, 2, 14, he is described as "one counselling with understanding."
3. A Levitc in the Temple band as arranged by Da- vid, appointed to play "with psalteries on Alamoth" (1 Chron. xv, 20; comp. xvr. .")). He was of the sec- ond order of Levites (xv, 18), a porter or gate-keeper, and may possiblj' be the same as the preceding or the following.
4. One of the priests who blew with the trumpets in the procession wlircli accompanied the ark from the house of Obed-edom (1 Chron. xv, 24). B.C. 1043.
5. Son of Isshiah, or .Icsiah, a Kohathite Levite de- scended from Uzziel (1 Chron. xxiv, 25). B.C. 1043.
6. Fourth son of Hosah of the children of Merari (I Chron. xxvi, 11). B.C. 104.3.
7. (Sept. ZaSaiag v. r. Zajiclag.) A Manassite, whose son Iddo was chief of his tribe in (iilead in the reign of David (1 Chron. xxvii, 21). B.C. 1014.
8. The son of Benaiah and father of Jahaziel, which last was a Gershonite Levite in the reign of Jehosha- phat (2 Chron. xx, 14). B.C. ante 912.
9. Third named of the live princes of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat who were sent with priests and Levites to teach the people the law of Jehovah (2 Chron. xvii, 7). B.C. 910.
10. Fourth named of the seven sons of king Jehosh- aphat (2 Chron. xxi, 2). B.C. 887.
11. (Sept. AZapiag.) Son of the high-priest Jehoi- ada, in the reign of Joash, king of Judah (2 Chron. xxiv, 20), and therefore the king's cousin. B.C. 838. After the death of Jehoiada, Zechariah probably suc- ceeded to his office, and in attempting to check the re- action in favor of idolatry which immediately followed, he fell a victim to a conspiracy formed against him by the king, and was stoned with stones in the court of the Temple. His dying cry was not that of the first Christian martyr, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" (Acts vii, 60), but, "The Lord look upon it. and require it" (2 Chron. xxiv, 20-22). The memory of this unrighteous deed lasted h)ng in Jewish tradition. In the Jerusalem Talmud (Taanilh, fol. 69, (pioted by Lightfoot, Temple Service, ch. xxxvi) there is a legend told of eighty thousand young priests who were slain by Nebuzaradan for the blood of Zechariah, and the evi- dent hold which the story had taken upon the minds of the people renders it probable that " Zacharias son of Barachias." who was slain between the 'i'cmple and the altar (Matt, xxiii, 35), is the same with Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, and that the name of Barachias as his father crept into the text from a marginal gloss, the writer confusing this Zechariah either with Zech- ariah the prophet, who was the son of Berechiah, or with another Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah (Isa. viii, 2). — Smith. See Casteus, De Zacharht herechiw Filio (Li|is. 1720) ; Huth, Cades Abelis el Zachorup (Er- lang. 1756); and the Stud. u. Krit. 1841, ii, 673. See Zacharias.
12. A prophet in the reign of Uzziah who appears to have acted as the king's counsellor, but of whom nothing is known (2 Chron. xxvi, 5). B.C. 807. The chronicler in describing him makes use of a most re- markable and unique expression — "Zechariah, who un- derstood the seeing of God," or, as our A. V. lias it, "who had understanding in the visions of (iod" (comp. Dan. i, 17). As no such term is ever em[iloved else- where in the description of any prophet, it has been questioned whether the reading of the received text is the true one. The Sept., Targum, Syriac, Arabic,
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13. (Sept. 'La\apia.) A chief of the Reubenites at the time of the captivity by Tiglath-pileser (I Chron. V, 7). B.C. cir. 7-10.
14. The father of Abijah, or Abi, Ilezekiah's moth- er ('2 Cnron. xxix, 1) ; mentioned also in '2 Kings xviii, 2 (Sept. ZayxaioQ, A. V. " Zachariah"). B.C. ante 726.
15. Second named of the " sons" of Asaph the min- strel, who in the reign of Hezekiah took part with oth- er Levites in the purification of the Temple (2 Chron. xxix, 13). B.C. 726.
16. The sou of Jeberechiah, who was taken by the prophet Isaiah as one of the "faithful witnesses to re- cord," when he wrote concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isa. viii, 2). B.C. 723. He was not the same as Zech- ariah the prophet, who lived in the time of Uzziah and died before that king, but he may have been the Le- vite of that name who in the reign of Hezekiah assist- ed in the purification of the Temple (2 Ciiron. xxix, 13). As Zechariah the prophet is called the son of Bere- chiah, with which Jeberechiah is all but identical, Ber- tholdt (h'iidi'il. iv, 1722, 1727) conjectured tliat some of the prophecies attributed to him, at any rate ch. ix-xi, were realh^ the production of Zechariah, the contempo- rary of Isaiah, and were appended to the volume of the later prophet of the same name (Gesenius, De?- Proph. Jesaia, i, 327). Another conjecture is that Zech- ariah the son of Jeberechiah is the same as Zechariah the father of Abijah, the (|ueen of Ahaz (Toli Synopsis, ad loc.) ; the witnesses summoned by Isaiah being thus men of the highest ecclesiastical and civil rank.