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MAASEIAH

(Heb. maʿăśēyâ, maʿăśēyāhû)
(also ASAIAH)

1. A Levite of the second order who was installed as a musician when the ark was brought to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:18).

2. A lute player, probably the same as 1 above (1 Chr. 15:20).

3. The son of Adaiah; a captain of a hundred who supported the priest Jehoiada in overthrowing Queen Athaliah (2 Chr. 23:1).

4. An officer who under the direction of Hananiah enrolled Uzziah’s army (2 Chr. 26:11).

5. The deputy or perhaps even son of Ahaz (lit., “son of”), killed by the Ephraimite Zichri during Pekah’s invasion (2 Chr. 28:7).

6. A governor of Jerusalem, commissioned by King Josiah to repair the temple (2 Chr. 34:8).

7. A priest of the family of Jeshua who had married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:18; 1 Esdr. 9:19).

8. A member of the priestly family of Harim who had married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:21; 1 Esdr. 9:21).

9. A priest of the family of Pahhur who had married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:22; 1 Esdr. 9:22).

10. A member of the family of Pahath-moab who had married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:30; cf. 1 Esdr. 9:31, Moossias).

11. The father of Azariah who took part in Nehemiah’s wall building in Jerusalem (Neh. 3:23). Some of the individuals named Maaseiah 11-16 may be identical.

12. A person who stood at Ezra’s right hand as he read the Torah (Neh. 8:4; cf. 1 Esdr. 9:43, Baalsamus).

13. An Israelite who read the Torah in Hebrew and expounded on it, probably by translating it into Aramaic (Neh. 8:7; cf. 1 Esdr. 9:48, Maiannas).

14. One of the chiefs of the people who witnessed the sealing of the covenant under Nehemiah (Neh. 10:25[MT 26]).

15. The son of Baruch, a leader of Judah who lived in postexilic Jerusalem (Neh. 11:5). At 1 Chr. 9:5 he is called Asaiah.

16. An ancestor of the Benjamite Sallu (Neh. 11:7).

17. A priest who played the trumpet at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:41).

18. A priest who took part in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:42).

19. The father of the priest Zephaniah (Jer. 21:1; 29:25; 37:3).

20. The father of Zedekiah, who was accused by Jeremiah of prophesying falsely (Jer. 29:21). He may be identical with 18 above.

21. The son of Shallum, a keeper of the threshold (Jer. 35:4).

Jesper Svartvik

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MAASEIAH

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)