DELAIAH

1. Son of Elioenai who traced his line of descent through Zerubbabel to David (1 Chr 3:24, kjv “Dalaiah”).

2. Priest in the time of David (1 Chr 24:18).

3. Head of a postexilic family that returned with Zerubbabel to Judea. The group was unable to prove true Israelite descent (Ezr 2:60; Neh 7:62).

4. Father of a fifth-century BC man named Shemaiah. Shemaiah opposed Nehemiah (Neh 6:10).

5. Counselor in the reign of Jehoiakim (609–598 BC) who urged the king not to destroy Jeremiah’s scroll, which Baruch had just read (Jer 36:12, 25).