View PDFThe content displayed below is for educational and archival purposes only.
Unless stated otherwise, content is © Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
You may be able to find the original on wol.jw.org
JESHAIAH
(Je·shaʹiah) [Salvation of Jehovah].
1. A Levitical descendant of Moses through Eliezer, and an ancestor of the Shelomoth whom David appointed as one of his treasurers.—1Ch 23:15; 26:24-26.
2. A Levite musician of “the sons of Jeduthun,” selected by lot to head the 8th of the 24 Davidic musical groups.—1Ch 25:1, 3, 15.
3. A Benjamite whose distant descendant lived in Jerusalem during Nehemiah’s governorship.—Ne 11:4, 7.
4. Head of the paternal house of Elam in whose group were 70 males accompanying Ezra on the return to Jerusalem.—Ezr 8:1, 7.
5. A Merarite Levite who also returned with Ezra from Babylon.—Ezr 8:1, 19.
6. A descendant of King David; grandson of Governor Zerubbabel.—1Ch 3:1, 19, 21.
