JESHAIAH

(Je·shaʹiah) [Salvation of Jehovah].

1. A Levitical descendant of Moses through Eliezer, and an ancestor of the Shelomoth whom David appointed as one of his treasurers.​—1Ch 23:15; 26:24-26.

2. A Levite musician of “the sons of Jeduthun,” selected by lot to head the 8th of the 24 Davidic musical groups.​—1Ch 25:1, 3, 15.

3. A Benjamite whose distant descendant lived in Jerusalem during Nehemiah’s governorship.​—Ne 11:4, 7.

4. Head of the paternal house of Elam in whose group were 70 males accompanying Ezra on the return to Jerusalem.​—Ezr 8:1, 7.

5. A Merarite Levite who also returned with Ezra from Babylon.​—Ezr 8:1, 19.

6. A descendant of King David; grandson of Governor Zerubbabel.​—1Ch 3:1, 19, 21.