Rehum
(merciful).
1. One who went up from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:2 (B.C. 536.)
2. "Rehum the chancellor." Ezr 4:8,9,17,23 He was perhaps a kind of lieutenant-governor of the province under the king of Persia. (B.C. 535.)
3. A Levite of the family of Bani, who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Ne 3:17 (B.C. 445.)
4. One of the chief of the people, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. Ne 10:25 (B.C. 410.)
5. A priestly family, or the head of a priestly house, who went up with Zerubbabel. Ne 12:3 (B.C. 536.)
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