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