(the Lord says, i.e. promises)

1. Father of Ahitub according to (1 Chronicles 6:7, 52) and son of Meraioth, in the line of the high priests.
2. The high priest in the reign of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 19:11). He was the son of Azariah.
3. The head of a Levitical house of the Kohathites (1 Chronicles 23:19; 24:23)
4. The head of one of the twenty-four courses of priests (2 Chronicles 31:15; Nehemiah 10:3; 12:2, 13)
5. One of the sons of Bani in the time of Ezra (Ezra 10:42)
6. A priest who returned with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 10:3; 12:2, 13)
7. A descendant of Pharez (Nehemiah 11:4)
8. An ancestor of Zephaniah the prophet (Zephaniah 1:1)