SHEBANIAH

sheb-a-ni'-a, she-ban'-ya (shebhanyah, in 1 Chronicles 15:24, shebhanyahu):

(1) Name of a Levite or a Levitical family that participated in the religious rites that followed the reading of the Law (Nehemiah 9:4). The name is given in Nehemiah 10:10 among those that sealed the covenant.

(2) A priest or Levite who took part in the sealing of the covenant (Nehemiah 10:4; 12:14).

See SHECANIAH; SHECHANIAH .

(3) Another Levite who sealed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:12).

(4) A priest in the time of David (1 Chronicles 15:24).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.