as his personal attendants and advisers. (Daniel 1:20) But notwithstanding their Chaldeans education,
these three young Hebrews were strongly attached to the religion of their fathers; and their refusal
to join in the worship of the image on the plain of Dura gave a handle of accusation to the Chaldeans.
The rage of the king, the swift sentence of condemnation passed upon the three offenders, their
miraculous preservation from the fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than usual, the king’s
acknowledgement of the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, with their restoration to office,
are written in the third chapter of Daniel, and there the history leaves them.
Meshelemiah
(whom Jehovah repays), a Korhite porter or gate-keeper of the house of Jehovah in the reign
of David. (1 Chronicles 9:21; 26:1,2,9)
Meshezabeel
(delivered by God).
•Ancestor of Meshullam, who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah
3:4)
•One of the “heads of the people,” probably a family, who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah.
(Nehemiah 10:21)
•The father of Pethahiah, and descendant of Zerah the son of Judah. (Nehemiah 11:24)
Meshillemith
(recompense), the son of Immer, a priest. (Nehemiah 11:13; 1 Chronicles 9:12)
Meshillemoth
(recompense).
•An Ephraimite, one of the chiefs of the tribe in the reign of Pekah. (2 Chronicles 28:12)
•The same as Meshillemith. (Nehemiah 11:13)
Meshullam
(friend).
•Ancestor of Shaphan the scribe. (2 Kings 22:3)
•The son of Zerubbabel. (1 Chronicles 3:19)
•A Gadite in the reign of Jotham king of Judah. (1 Chronicles 5:13)
•A Benjamite, of the sons of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:17)
•A Benjamite, father of Sallu. (1 Chronicles 9:7; Nehemiah 11:7)
•A Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
•The same as Shallum, who was high priest probably in the reign of Amon, and father of Hilkiah.
(1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 11:11)
•A priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth the son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or
Amashai. (1 Chronicles 9:12) comp. Nehe 11:13
•A Kohathite or a family of Kohathite Levites, in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 34:12)
•One of the “heads” sent by Ezra to Iddo, “the head,” to gather together the Levites to join the
caravan about to return to Jerusalem. (Ezra 8:16)
•A chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had contracted
with foreign wives. (Ezra 10:15)
•One of the descendants of Bani, who had married a foreign wife and put her away. (Ezra 10:29)
•(Nehemiah 3:30; 6:18) The son of Berechiah, who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem.
(Nehemiah 3:4)
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