Dict: smith - DELAIAH

smith:

DELAIAH - D>@ - (freed by Jehovah). A priest in the time of David, leader of the twenty-third course of priests. ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:18) (B.C. 1014.) "Children of Delaiah" were among the people of uncertain pedigree who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:60; kjv@Nehemiah:7:62) (B.C. 536.) Son of Mehetabeel and father of Shemaiah. kjv@Nehemiah:6:10) (B.C. before 410.) Son of Shemaiah, one of the "princes" about the court of Jehoiakim. kjv@Jeremiah:36:12 kjv@Jeremiah:36:25) (B.C. 604.)