Maaseiah

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mā-a-sē´ya, mā-a-sī´a (מעשׂיהוּ, ma‛ăsēyāhū, “YHWH's work”; Μαασσαιά, Maassaiá, and Massaías in the Septuagint):

A name common in exilic and late monarchic times (Gray, HPN).

(1) A Levite musician named in connection with David's bringing up of the ark from the house of Obed-Edom. He was one of the Levites whom David appointed as porter for the ark (1 Chronicles 15:18, 1 Chronicles 15:20).

(2) A Levite captain (one of the “captains of hundreds”) who aided Jehoiada at the coronation of Joash / Jehoash to the throne (2 Chronicles 23:1).

(3) An officer of Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:11).

(4) King Ahaz' son, slain by the Ephraimite, Zichri in the invasion of Judah by Pekah, king of Israel (2 Chronicles 28:7).

(5) One who was sent by king Josiah to repair the temple (2 Chronicles 34:8). He was governor (Heb. sar, rendered elsewhere in the King James Version “prince,” “chief captain,” chief ruler”) of Jerusalem.

(6) (7) (8) (9) The name of 4 men, 3 of them priests, who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:18, Ezra 10:21, Ezra 10:22, Ezra 10:30).

(10) Father of Azariah, one of the builders of the wall (Nehemiah 3:23).

(11) One of those who stood at Ezra's right hand during the reading of the Law (Nehemiah 8:4).

(12) One of the expounders of the Law (Nehemiah 8:7).

(13) One of those who took part in sealing the covenant (Nehemiah 10:25).

(14) A Judahite inhabitant of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 11:5), who in 1 Chronicles 9:5 is called Asaiah.

(15) A Benjamite (Nehemiah 11:7).

(16) (17) Name of two priests (Nehemiah 12:41 f).

(18) A priest in Zedekiah's reign, father of a certain priest Zephaniah who interviewed the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 37:3).

(19) Father of the false prophet Zedekiah (Jeremiah 29:21).

(20) A keeper of the threshold in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 35:4).

(21) Baaseiah (which see), a Kohathite name (1 Chronicles 6:40), is probably a textual error for Maaseiah.

(22) "Refuge is YHWH", a priest, the father of Neriah (Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 51:59). The King James Version for Mahseiah, an ancestor of Baruch (Jeremiah 32:12).

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