joined to the Lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SEMACHIAH.A Korahite family of gatekeepers (1Ch_26:7). Perhaps the same name should be substituted for Ismachiah in 2Ch_31:13.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Semachi'ah. (Jehovah sustains him). One of the sons of Skemaiah, 9. 1Ch_26:7. See Skemaiah, 9.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
sem-a-kı̄?a (סמכיהוּ, ṣemakhyāhū, ?Yah has sustained?): A Korahite family of gatekeepers (1Ch_26:7). Perhaps the same name should be substituted for ?Ismachiah? in 2Ch_31:13 (see HPN, 291, 295).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
(Hebrew in the prolonged form Semakya'hu, סְמִכַיָהוּ, sustained of Jehovah; Sept. Σαμαχίας v.r. Σαβαχία), the sixth and last named son of Shemaiah, the son of Obed-edom (1Ch_26:7). B.C. cir. 1013.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.