This document is about Shemaiah (son of Galal). For other homonyms, refer to the Shemaiah document.
He is recorded as the father of Obadiah, a descendant of Jeduthun of the Levite tribe, who remained and was not taken captive to Babylon.
1 Chronicles 9:16and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.