25 others in the registry answer to the name Shemaiah. Every Shemaiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Jeremiah 36:12
- last named
- Jeremiah 36:12
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Shemaiah?
Shemaiah is mentioned in Jer.36.12 as one of the officials present in the chamber of Elishama the scribe during the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. When Micaiah reported to the officials about the scroll containing Jeremiah's prophecies, which had been read by Baruch, Shemaiah was among those who listened to the report. The officials then sent Jehudi to retrieve the scroll from Baruch and read it in their presence. This event led to King Jehoiakim burning the scroll and ordering the arrest of Jeremiah and Baruch. Shemaiah's presence in the chamber suggests that he held a position of some importance within the royal court, although his specific role is not elaborated upon in the text.
Relations
Direct connections
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Father of
- DelaiahregistryJeremiah 36:12
Places
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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