Bible Person
Male · 3 cross references
This Meshullam entry refers to the man active in Nehemiah's rebuilding accounts and later connected by marriage ties to Tobiah. He stands in the complicated overlap between public rebuilding and compromised political relationships. First appears in Neh 3:4.1
AI summary: Meshullam matters because the cross references place him both among those repairing Jerusalem's wall and within the network of family alliances that made Tobiah influential inside the city. That tension captures one of Nehemiah's recurring themes: visible participation in reform does not automatically remove divided loyalties. Taken together, the material presents this Meshullam as a builder whose family ties also expose the political vulnerability of the restored community.1
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.