| Meshullam = "friend"
1. grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe 2. son of Zerubbabel 3. a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal 4. a Benjamite, father of Sallu 5. a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity 6. a Benjamite 1) perhaps the same as 3 or 4 7. a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah 8. son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem 9. son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem 10. a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 11. father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah 1 1) perhaps the same as 'Shallum' 12. a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai 13. a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 14. a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua 15. a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem 16. a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah 17. a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives 18. ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah 19. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away 20. one of the men who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people 1) maybe the same as 17 |