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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).