Delaiah

Delaiah
   Freed by Jehovah.
   1) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chr. 24:18).
   2) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jer. 36:12).
   3) The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; Neh. 7:62).

Easton's Bible Dictionary. . 1897.

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