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SHEPHATIAH

(Heb. šĕpaṭyâ, šĕpaṭyāhû)

1. A son of David and his wife Abital born in Hebron (2 Sam. 3:4; 1 Chr. 3:3).

2. An ancestor of a group of Benjaminites who dwelled in Jerusalem after the Exile (1 Chr. 9:8).

3. A Haruphite of the tribe of Benjamin who joined David’s rebel force in Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:5 [MT 6]).

4. The son of Maacah; chief of the tribe of Simeon during the reign of David (1 Chr. 27:16).

5. A son of King Jehoshaphat of Judah (2 Chr. 21:2). He and five of his brothers were killed by their brother Jehoram, Jehoshaphat’s oldest son, after Jehoram’s accession to the throne (2 Chr. 21:4).

6. The ancestor of two groups of people who returned to Judah after the Exile (Ezra 2:4 = Neh. 7:9; Ezra 8:8).

7. One of Solomon’s servants whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel from exile in Babylon (Ezra 2:57; Neh. 7:59).

8. A Judahite whose descendants lived in Jerusalem after the Exile (Neh. 11:4).

9. One of four princes of Judah who demanded that King Zedediah put Jeremiah to death because of his prophecies (Jer. 38:1-4). This occurred during a lull in the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:11; 588 b.c.e.). Zedediah granted their request and gave Jeremiah over to them, and they cast him into a dry cistern to die (Jer. 38:5-6).

Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

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SHEPHATIAH

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)