1. One of the singers appointed by the Levites to accompany David when he brought the ark from Obed-edom’s house to Jerusalem (1 Chr 15:18–20).→ View encyclopedia entry
2. Commander who agreed to assist Jehoiada the priest in crowning Joash king (2 Chr 23:1).→ View encyclopedia entry
3. Officer who served King Uzziah by assisting in the organization of the king’s army (2 Chr 26:11).→ View encyclopedia entry
4. Son of Judah’s royal house who was slain when Pekah the king of Israel invaded Judah (2 Chr 28:7).→ View encyclopedia entry
5. Ruler in Jerusalem whom Josiah appointed to assist in repairing the temple (2 Chr 34:8).→ View encyclopedia entry
6–8. Three priests who obeyed Ezra’s exhortation to divorce their foreign wives during the postexilic era (Ezr 10:18–22).
9. Pahath-moab’s son (Ezr 10:30).→ View encyclopedia entry
10. Father of Azariah, a repairman of the Jerusalem wall (Neh 3:23).→ View encyclopedia entry
11. Ezra’s attendant when he read the law to the people (Neh 8:4).→ View encyclopedia entry
12. Levite who, with others, helped the people to understand the law Ezra read (Neh 8:7).→ View encyclopedia entry
13. Leader who set his seal on Ezra’s covenant under Nehemiah’s leadership (Neh 10:25).
14. Judahite leader and the son of Baruch, who lived in Jerusalem with those chosen by lot to inherit the rebuilt city (Neh 11:5). He is sometimes identified with the Asaiah mentioned in 1 Chronicles 9:5.→ View encyclopedia entry
15. Ithiel’s son from Benjamin’s tribe who was chosen to live in Jerusalem (Neh 11:7).→ View encyclopedia entry
16. Priestly trumpeter at the dedication of the Jerusalem wall (Neh 12:41).→ View encyclopedia entry
17. Priestly singer at the dedication of the Jerusalem wall (Neh 12:42).→ View encyclopedia entry
18. Father of Zephaniah the priest. Zephaniah, with Pashhur, was sent to Jeremiah by King Zedekiah to inquire of the Lord concerning the future of Nebuchadnezzar’s war against Jerusalem (Jer 21:1–2; 29:25) and to request that Jeremiah pray for Jerusalem (37:3).→ View encyclopedia entry
19. Father of Zedekiah the false prophet, an opponent of Jeremiah’s prophecy about Jerusalem’s fall under Nebuchadnezzar’s siege (Jer 29:21).→ View encyclopedia entry
20. KJV form of Mahseiah, Baruch’s forefather, in Jeremiah 32:12 and 51:59. See Mahseiah.
21. Keeper of the threshold during Jehoiakim’s reign (Jer 35:4).→ View encyclopedia entry