MELCHIAS.1. 1Es_9:26 = Malchijah, Ezr_10:25; Ezr_10:2, 1Es_9:32 = Malchijah, Ezr_10:31; Ezr_10:3, 1Es_9:44 = Malchijah, Neh_8:4.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
mel-kı̄?as (Codex Vaticanus, Μελχείας, Melcheı́as, Codex Vaticanus (b), Codex Alexandrinus, Μελχίας, Melchı́as): Name of three men who had taken ?strange wives?:
(1) 1 Esdras 9:26 = ?Malchijah? (Ezr_10:25).
(2) 1 Esdras 9:32 = ?Malchijah? (Ezr_10:31).
(3) One of those who stood at Ezra's left hand when the law was read (1 Esdras 9:44) = ?Malchijah? (Neh_8:4), possibly identical with (1) or (2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Melchias
(Μελχίας), the Greek form (in'the Apocrypha) of the Hebrews MALCHIAH; namely, (a) 1Es_9:26; (b) 1Es_9:32; (c) 1Es_9:44.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.