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Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

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AMARIAH

Common OT name, meaning “the Lord has spoken” or “the Lord has promised.”

1. Son of Meraioth in the line of Aaron’s son Eleazer (1 Chr 6:7, 52).

2. High priest, Azariah’s son and Ahitub’s father (1 Chr 6:11; Ezr 7:3).

3. Hebron’s second son and Kohath’s grandson from Levi’s tribe (1 Chr 23:19; 24:23).

4. Chief priest during the reign of Jehoshaphat of the southern kingdom of Judah (2 Chr 19:11).

5. Levite who served faithfully under King Hezekiah of Judah (2 Chr 31:14-15).

6. One of Binnui’s sons, who obeyed Ezra’s exhortation to divorce his pagan wife after the exile (Ezr 10:42).

7. Priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh 12:2, 13) and who, with Nehemiah and others, signed Ezra’s covenant of faithfulness to God after the exile (Neh 10:3).

8. Shephatiah’s son, a descendant of Judah and ancestor of Athaiah. Amariah lived in Jerusalem after the exile (Neh 11:4).

9. Hezekiah’s son and ancestor of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep 1:1).

10. Person mentioned in the Ezra genealogies of 1 Esdras 8:2 and 2 Esdras 1:2. In the first list he is Uzzi’s son and Ahitub’s father. In the second he is Azariah’s son and Eli’s father. He may be the same as Amariah #1 or #2 above, since both sources list him as Ahitub’s father.