Ma-Aseiah
Ma-Aseiah [1]
Ma-ase'iah. (work of the Lord). The name includes four persons who had married foreign wives in the time of Ezra.
1. A descendant of Jeshua, the priest. Ezra 10:18.
2. A priest, of the sons of Harim. Ezra 10:21.
3. A priest, of the sons of Pashur. Ezra 10:22.
4. One of the laymen, a descendant of Pahath-moab. Ezra 10:30.
5. The father of Azariah. Nehemiah 3:23.
6. One of those who stood on the right hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people. Nehemiah 8:4.
7. A Levite who assisted on the same occasion. Nehemiah 8:7.
8. One of the heads of the people whose descendants signed the covenant with Nehemiah. Nehemiah 10:25.
9. Son of Baruch, the descendant of Pharez, the son of Judah. Nehemiah 11:5.
10. A Benjamite, ancestor of Sallu. Nehemiah 11:7.
11. Two priests of this name are mentioned, Nehemiah 12:41-42, as taking part in the musical service which accompanied the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem under Ezra. One of them is probably the same as Maaseiah, 6 .
12. Father of Zephaniah, who was a priest in the reign of Zedekiah. Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 37:3.
13. Father of Zedekiah, the false prophet. Jeremiah 29:21.
14. One of the Levites of the second rank, appointed by David to sound "with psaltries on Alamoth." 1 Chronicles 15:18; 1 Chronicles 15:20.
15. The son of Adaiah, and one of the captains of hundreds in the reign of Joash king of Judah. 2 Chronicles 23:1.
16. An officer of high rank in the reign of Uzziah. 2 Chronicles 26:11. He was probably a Levite, compare 1 Chronicles 23:4, and engaged in a semi-military capacity.
17. The "king's son," killed by Zichri, the Ephraimitish hero, in the invasion of Judah by Pekah, king of Israel, during the reign of Ahaz. 2 Chronicles 28:7.
18. The governor of Jerusalem in the reign of Josiah. 2 Chronicles 34:8.
19. The son of Shallum, a Levite of high rank in the reign of Jehoiakim. Jeremiah 35:4. Compare 1 Chronicles 9:19.
20. A priest; ancestor of Baruch and Seraiah, the sons of Neriah. Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 51:59.
