SHEPHATIAH

shef-a-ti'-a, she-fat'-ya (shephaTyah, "Yah has judged"):

(1) A son of David, by Abital (2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Chronicles 3:3).

(2) A Benjamite, father of Meshullam, of Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 9:8).

(3) A Benjamite, who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:5).

(4) A prince of the Simeonites in the time of David (1 Chronicles 27:16).

(5) A son of King Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 21:2).

(6) A family, 372 of whom returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:4; Nehemiah 7:9); 80 more males of this family, with their head, returned with Ezra (Ezra 8:8).

(7) A servant of Solomon, 392 of whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:57 f; Nehemiah 7:59 f); "Saphat" in 1 Esdras 5:9 and "Saphatias" in 1 Esdras 8:34.

(8) A Perezzite (Judahite), some of whose descendants dwelt at Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 11:4).

(9) A son of Mattan, a contemporary of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1).

James Orr

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