Delaiah
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dē̇ -lā´ya ( דּליה , delāyāh , "God has raised"):
(1) A descendant of David ( 1 Chronicles 3:24; the King James Version "Dalaiah").
(2) One of David's priests and leader of the 23rd course ( 1 Chronicles 24:18 ).
(3) One of the princes who pleaded with Jehoiakim not to destroy the roll containing the prophecies of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 36:12 , Jeremiah 36:25 ).
(4) The ancestor of a post-exilic family whose genealogy was lost ( Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 7:62; 1 Esdras 5:37 margin). See Dalan .
(5) The father of timorous Shemaiah ( Nehemiah 6:10 ).
