Delaiah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(freed by Jehovah). 1. A priest in the time of David, leader of the twenty-third course of priests. 1Ch 24:18 (B.C. 1014.) 2. "Children of Delaiah" were among the people of uncertain pedigree who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:60; Ne 7:62 (B.C. 536.) 3. Son of Mehetabeel and father of Shemaiah. Ne 6:10 (B.C. before 410.) 4. Son of Shemaiah, one of the "princes" about the court of Jehoiakim. Jer 36:12,25 (B.C. 604.)