The meaning of Malchijah in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
mal-ki'-ja (malkiyah, "Yah is king"; Melcheias, with variants):
(1) A Levite, descendant of Gershom, of those whom David set over the "service of sting" in the worship (I Chronicles 6:40).
(2) The head of the 5th course of priests (I Chronicles 24:9).
(3) One of the laymen who had taken "strange wives" during the exile (Ezra 10:25); the "Melchias" of 1 Esdras 9:26.
(4) Another of the same name (Ezra 10:25; two in same verse). Called "Asibias" in 1 Esdras 9:26.
(5) Another under the same offense, son of Harim (Ezra 10:31). "Melchias" in 1 Esdras 9:32.
(6) One of the "repairers" who helped with the "tower of the furnaces" (Nehemiah 3:11).
(7) Son of Rechab ruler of Beth-haccerem, repairer of the dung gate (Nehemiah 3:14).
(8) A goldsmith who helped in building the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:31).
(9) One of those at Ezra's left hand when he read the law (though possibly one of the above (Nehemiah 8:4)). In 1 Esdras 9:44 "Melchias."
(10) One of the covenant signatories (Nehemiah 10:3).
(11) The father of Pashhur (Nehemiah 11:12; Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 38:1).
(12) A priest, a singer at the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem under Ezra and Nehemiah (Nehemiah 12:42).
(13) (malkiyahu as above with u ending): Son of Ham-melech (or, as I Kings 22:26; II Chronicles 28:7 translate it, "king's son"). Jeremiah was cast into his dungeon or pit (Jeremiah 38:6).
The King James Version spells "Malchiah" or "Malchijah" indifferently with "Melchiah" in Jeremiah 21:1; the English Revised Version has "Malchiah" in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 38:1, Jeremiah 38:6, elsewhere "Malchijah"; the American Standard Revised Version has "Malchijah" throughout.
Henry Wallace
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