malchiah Summary and Overview

Jehovah's king. (1.) The head of the fifth division of the priests in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:9). (2.) A priest, the father of Pashur (1 Chr. 9:12; Jer. 38:1). (3.) One of the priests appointed as musicians to celebrate the completion of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:42). (4.) A priest who stood by Ezra when he "read in the book of the law of God" (Neh. 8:4). (5.) Neh. 3:11. (6.) Neh. 3:31. (7.) Neh. 3:14.

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.

1. 1 Chronicles 6:40. 2. Ezra 10:25. 3. Ezra 10:31. 4. Nehemiah 3:14. 5. Nehemiah 3:31. 6. Nehemiah 8:4. 7. Nehemiah 11:12; Jeremiah 38:1. 8. Son of Hammelech, or "of the king" into whose dungeon Jeremiah was cast (Jeremiah 38:6). Jerahmeel also is called "son of Hammeleeh" or "the king" (Jeremiah 36:26), and Joash (1 Kings 22:26), and Maaseiah (2 Chronicles 28:7). Therefore the title is official, one of the royal family, exercising some of the royal prerogative.