Malchiah in Biblical History

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Who is Malchiah?
MALCHI'AH
(Jehovah's king). 1. A Gershonite Levite, the ancestor of Asaph. 1 Chr 6:40. 2. Two who had married foreign wives. Ezr 10:25, 1 Chr 24:31, the latter probably the same as Malchijah. Neh 3:11. 3. Two who helped to repair the wall of Jerusalem. Neh 3:14. 4. A priest who stood beside Ezra when he read the Law to the people in the street before the Water-gate. Neh 8:4. 5. A priest, the father of Pashur, Neh 11:12; probably the same as Melchiah, Jer 21:1; Neh 11:12; Jer 38:1, and Malchijah. 6. An officer in whose cistern Jeremiah was thrown, Jer 38:6, the dry cistern being used in Palestine as a dungeon.

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