Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
This Shechaniah entry refers to the father of a wall-repairer in Nehemiah and also to the household setting behind the confession scene in Ezra, not to the Davidic genealogical figure of the same name. He belongs to the post-exilic world of repentance and rebuilding. First appears in Ezra 10:2.1
AI summary: This Shechaniah matters because his cross references associate his house both with public confession over intermarriage and with the practical work of repairing Jerusalem's wall. That combination places the name near two major dimensions of restoration: moral reform and civic rebuilding. Taken together, the material presents this Shechaniah as a family source embedded in post-exilic renewal.1
Central Figure
Shechaniah
The father of Shemaiah, who repaired the wall of Jerusalem (Neh.
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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.