Bible Person
Meaning: God is my king · Male · 2 cross references
Melchiah is the father of Pashhur in Jeremiah's court setting. He stands behind one of the officials involved in the pressure placed upon Jeremiah during Jerusalem's final crisis. First appears in Jer 21:1.1
AI summary: Melchiah matters because his cross references place his household in the orbit of those opposing or constraining Jeremiah's prophetic witness. Though Melchiah does not dominate the narrative himself, his family line helps locate the social and political network through which pressure is applied to the prophet. Taken together, the material presents Melchiah as a household source tied to the contested leadership of Jerusalem's last days.1
Central Figure
Melchiah
Meaning: God is my king
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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.