This document is about Jedaiah (Priest_Taken_Captive_to_Babylon). For other homonyms, please refer to the Jedaiah document. These are priests who were taken captive to Babylon and returned, and many are not distinguished, so they are recorded here.
Nehemiah 12:1Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,Nehemiah 12:2Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,Nehemiah 12:3Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,Nehemiah 12:4Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,Nehemiah 12:5Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.Nehemiah 12:6Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.Nehemiah 12:7Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.Nehemiah 12:8Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.Nehemiah 12:9Jeshua became the father of Joiakim), and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,Nehemiah 12:10and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.Nehemiah 12:11In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;Nehemiah 12:12of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;Nehemiah 12:13of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;Nehemiah 12:14of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;Nehemiah 12:15of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;Nehemiah 12:16of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;Nehemiah 12:17of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;Nehemiah 12:18and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;Nehemiah 12:19of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;Nehemiah 12:20of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.Nehemiah 12:21As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.