Shecaniah; Shechaniah
Shecaniah; Shechaniah [1]
shek - a - nı̄´a , shḗ - kan´ya ( שׁכניה , shekhanyāh (in 1 Chronicles 24:11; 2 Chronicles 31:15 , shekhanyāhū ); Codex Vaticanus Ἰσχανιά , Ischaniá , Σεκενιά , Sekeniá ):
(1) A descendant of Zerubbabel ( 1 Chronicles 3:21 , 1 Chronicles 3:22 ). This is the same Shecaniah mentioned in Ezra 8:3 .
(2) "The sons of Shecaniah," so the Massoretic Text of Ezra 8:5 reads, were among those who returned with Ezra, but a name appears to have been lost from the text, and we should probably read "of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel" (compare 1 Esdras 8:32, "of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus").
(3) Chief of the tenth course of priests ( 1 Chronicles 24:11 ).
(4) A priest in the reign of Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 31:15 ).
(5) A contemporary of Ezra who supported him in his opposition to foreign marriages ( Ezra 10:2 ).
(6) The father of Shemaiah, "the keeper of the east gate" ( Nehemiah 3:29 ).
(7) The father-in-law of Tobiah the Ammonite ( Nehemiah 6:18 ).
(8) The eponym of a family which returned with Zerubbabel ( Nehemiah 12:3 ). It is the same name which, by an interchange of bh and כ kh , appears as Shebaniah (see Shebaniah , (2)) in Nehemiah 10:4 , Nehemiah 10:12 , Nehemiah 10:14 .
