JESHAIAH

(Je·shaʹiah) [salvation of Jah].

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

2. A Levite musician of “the sons of Jeduthun,” selected by lot to head the eighth of the twenty-four Davidic musical groups.—1 Chron. 25:1, 3, 15.

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

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

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

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