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Malchijah

מַלְכִּיָּהוּ · mal.kiy.yah · H4441P1 mention, all in Nehemiah

Who he was

Malchijah was a priest who lived during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. When Ezra read the Book of the Law to the assembled people in Jerusalem, Malchijah was one of the priests who stood beside him on the platform. This event took place during the Feast of Tabernacles, after the Jews had returned from Babylonian exile (Nehemiah 8:4).

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Every mention

1 reference, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)

Nehemiah 1 mention

What the dictionary says

mal-ki'-ja (malkiyah, "Yah is king"; Melcheias, with variants): (1) A Levite, descendant of Gershom, of those whom David set over the "service of sting" in…

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
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