Amariah

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the Lord says; the integrity of the Lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


AMARIAH (‘J″ [Note: Jahweh.] said’ or ‘promised’).—1. Zep_1:1, great-grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah, and son of a Hezekiah who may be the king. This is the only instance of the name that is certainly pre-exilic. 2. 1Ch_6:7; 1Ch_6:52, grandfather of Zadok the priest. 3. 1Ch_23:19; 1Ch_24:23, a Levite in David’s time. 4. 1Ch_6:11, Ezr_7:3 (Amarias, 1Es_8:2, 2Es_1:2), son of Azariah, who is said to have ministered in Solomon’s temple. The lists in which 2 and 4 occur are very uncertain, and the name may refer to the same person in both. 5. 2Ch_19:11, a high priest in the reign of Jehoshaphat. 6. 2Ch_31:16, a Levite, a gate-porter, in Hezekiah’s time. 7. Neh_12:2; Neh_12:18; Neh_10:3, a priestly clan which returned to Jerusalem, and sealed the covenant under Nehemiah (probably the same as Immer, 1Ch_24:14, Ezr_2:37; Ezr_10:20, Neh_7:40 [Meruth, 1Es_5:24]). 8. Ezr_10:42, a Judahite, one of the sons of Bani (Ezr_10:34, cf. 1Ch_9:4) who had taken strange wives. 9. Neh_11:4, a Judahite who offered to dwell in Jerusalem. 10. Neh_12:12, where Meraiah is probably a corruption of Amariah (which is found in Syr. and Luc.).
A. H. M‘Neile.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

1. 1Ch_6:7; 1Ch_6:52.
2. High priest under Jehoshaphat, son of Azariah (1Ch_6:11; 2Ch_19:11), a seconder of that good king "in all matters of the Lord."
3. 1Ch_23:19.
4. Head of one of the 24 courses of priests which bore his name under David, Hezekiah, and Nehemiah (1Ch_24:14 Nehemiah or Immer; 2Ch_31:15; Neh_10:3; Neh_12:2; Neh_12:13).
5. Neh_11:4; Ezr_10:42.
6. Zep_1:1.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

Amari'ah. (the Lord says, that is, promises).
1. Father of Ahitub, according to 1Ch_6:7; 1Ch_6:52 and son of Meraioth, in the line of the high priests.
2. The high priest in the reign of Jehoshaphat. 2Ch_19:11. He was the son of Azariah.
3. The head of a Levitical house of the Kohathites. 1Ch_23:13; 1Ch_24:23
4. The head of one of the twenty-four courses of priest. 2Ch_31:15; Neh_10:3; Neh_12:2; Neh_12:13.
5. One of the sons of Bani , in the time of Ezra. Ezr_10:42
6. A priest who returned with Zerubbabel. Neh_10:3; Neh_12:2; Neh_12:13
7. A descendant of Pharez. Neh_11:4
8. An ancestor of Zephaniah, the prophet. Zep_1:1.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863

am-a-rı̄?a (אמויה, 'ămaryāh and אמריהוּ, 'ămaryāhū, ?the Lord has said?; compare HPN, 180, 285). (1) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Meraioth and grandfather of Zadok (1Ch_6:7, 1Ch_6:52) who lived in David's time. Compare Zadok (2Sa_15:27, etc.) also Ant, VIII, i, 3 and X, viii, 6. (2) A Levite in the line of Kohath-Hebron referred to in 1Ch_23:19 and 1Ch_24:23 at the time when David divided the Levites into courses. (3) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Azariah who ?executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built? (1Ch_6:10 f). Compare Ezr_7:3 where in the abbreviated list this Amariah is mentioned as an ancestor of Ezra. See AMARIAS (1 Esdras 8:2; 2 Esdras 1:2) and number (4) of this article (4) Chief priest and judge ?in all matters of Yahweh? appointed by Jehoshaphat (2Ch_19:11). Possibly identical with Amariah, number (3). (5) A descendant of Judah in the line of Perez and an ancestor of Ataiah who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile (Neh_11:4). Compare Imri (1Ch_9:4) and number (7) of this article, which Amariah seems to be of the same family, (6) A Levite and an assistant of Kore who was appointed by Hezekiah to distributed the ?oblations of Yahweh? to their brethren (2Ch_31:15). (7) A son of Bani who had married a foreign woman (Ezr_10:42). See number (5) of this article (8) A priest who with Nehemiah sealed the covenant (Neh_10:3); he had returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Neh_12:2) and was the father of Jehohanan (compare Hanani, Ezr_10:20), priest at the time of Joiakim (Neh_12:13). Compare Immer (Ezr_2:37; Ezr_10:20; Neh_7:40) and also Emmeruth (the King James Version ?Meruth,? 1 Esdras 5:24). (9) An ancestor of Zephaniah, the prophet (Zep_1:1).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Amariah, 1
Amari?ah (whom Jehovah said, i.e. promised, equivalent to the Greek name Theophrastus), mentioned in 1Ch_6:7, in the list of the descendants of Aaron by his eldest son Eleazer. He was the son of Meraioth and the father of Ahitub, who was (not the grandson and successor of Eli of the same name, but) the father of that Zadok in whose person Saul restored the high-priesthood to the line of Eleazer. The years during which the younger line of Ithamar enjoyed the pontificate in the persons of Eli, Ahitub, and Abimelech (who was slain by king Saul at Nob) doubtless more than cover the time of Amariah and his son Ahitub; and it is therefore sufficiently certain that they never were high-priests in fact, although their names are given to carry on the direct line of succession to Zadok.
Amariah, 2
Amariah, high-priest at a later period, the son of Azariah, and also father of a second Ahitub (1Ch_6:11). In like manner, in the same list, there are three high-priests bearing the name of Azariah.
Amariah, 3
Amariah, great-grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep_1:1).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.

Amariah
(Hebrew Amaryah', אֲמִדְיָה, said [i.e. promised] by Jehovah, q. d. Theophrastus; also in the paragogic form Amarya'hu, אֲמִדְיָהוּ, 1Ch_24:23; 2Ch_19:11; 2Ch_31:15), the name of several men.
1. (Sept. Α᾿μαρίας, Α᾿μαρία.) A person mentioned in 1Ch_6:7; 1Ch_6:52, in the list of the descendants of Aaron by his eldest son Eleazar, as the son of Meraioth and the father of Ahitub, which last was (not the grandson and successor of Eli of the same name, but) the father of that Zadok in whose person Saul restored the high-priesthood to the line of Eleazar. The years during which the younger line of Ithamar enjoyed the pontificate in the persons of Eli, Ahitub, and Abimelech (who was slain by King Saul at Nob) were doubtless more than sufficient to cover the time of this Amariah and his son Ahitub (q.v.), if they were contemporary, and it has, therefore, been thought that they never were high-priests in fact, although their names are given to carry on the direct line of succession to Zadok. But it is more probable that Amariah was the last of the high-priests of Eleazar's line prior to its transfer (for some unknown reason) to the house of Ithamar in the person of Eli (q.v.), and that the Ahitub whose son Zadok was the first to regain the lost succession was a more distant descendant in private life, the intermediate names in the genealogy being omitted. SEE HIGH-PRIEST. B.C. ante 1125. Josephus (Ant. 8, 1, 3) calls him Arophceus (Α᾿ροφαῖος), and says he lived in private, the pontificate being at the time in the family of Ithamar.
2. (Sept. Α᾿μαριά, Α᾿μαρίας.) A Levite, second son of Hebron and grandson of Kohath of the lineage of Moses (1Ch_23:19; 1Ch_24:23). B.C. 1014.
3. A “chief-priest" active in the political reformation instituted by Jehoshaphat (2Ch_19:11); perhaps identical with the high-priest that appears to have intervened between Azariah and Johanan (1Ch_6:9). See HIGH-PRIEST. B.C. 895. Josephus (Ant. 9, 1, 1) calls him "Amasias the priest" (Α᾿μασίας ὁ ἱερεύς); and says that he (as well as Zebadiah) was of the tribe of Judah, a statement probably due to the inaccuracy of the text (ἑκατέρους, “both," being evidently spurious or corrupt, see Hudson, in loc.). In the list of Josephus (Ant. 10, 8, 6) his name does not appear. 4. (Sept. Α᾿μαρίας, but Σαμαρεία v. r. Σαμαρία in Ezra.) A high-priest at a somewhat later date, the son of another Azariah (q.v.), and also father of a different Ahitub (1Ch_6:11; Ezr_7:3), or rather, perhaps, of Urijah (2Ki_16:10). SEE HIGH-PRIEST. B.C. prob. ante 740. Josephus (Ant. 10, 8, 6) appears to call him Jotham (Ι᾿ώθαμος), as also the Jewish chronicle Seder Olam.
5. (Sept. Α᾿μαρίας v. r. Μαρίας.) One of the Levites appointed by Hezekiah to superintend the distribution of the temple dues among the sacerdotal cities (2Ch_31:15). B.C. 726.
6. (Sept. Α᾿μορίας v. r. Α᾿μορείας and Α᾿μαρίας.) The son of Hizkiah and father of Gedaliah, which last was grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep_1:1). B.C. long ante 640.
7. (Sept. Σαμαρία.) The son of Shephatiah and father of Zechariah, which last was grandfather of Athaiah, the Judahite descendant of Pharez, resident at Jerusalem after the exile (Neh_11:4). B.C. long ante 536.
8. (Sept. Α᾿μαρία.) One of the priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh_10:3), B.C. 536, and afterward (in extreme age, if the same) sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh_12:2), B.C. cir. 410. He appears to have been identical with the chief-priest the father of Jehohanan (Neh_12:13).
9. (Sept. Α᾿μαρίας v. r. Α᾿μαρεία.) One of the Israelite “sons" of Bani, who divorced the Gentile wife whom he had married after the return from Babylon (Ezr_10:42). B.C. 459.



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