Bible Person
Meaning: the poor of the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
This Delaiah entry refers to the court official who hears Jeremiah's scroll and later urges the king not to burn it, not to the returnee house of the same name. He belongs to the tense political-religious world of Judah's final years. First appears in Jer 36:12.1
AI summary: This Delaiah matters because the cross references place him among the officials who are alarmed enough by Jeremiah's words to urge caution, even while royal defiance continues. His presence shows that the court was not monolithic; there were still listeners who grasped the seriousness of the prophetic warning. Taken together, the material presents this Delaiah as a court figure whose response briefly registers conscience in a resistant regime.1
Central Figure
Delaiah
Meaning: the poor of the Lord
A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah’s first roll of prophecy was read (Jer.
A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah’s first roll of prophecy was read (Jer. 36:12). 3
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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.