Bible Person
Meaning: God is my perfection; my happiness; my peace · Male · 2 cross references
Shelemiah is the father of Jucal in Jeremiah's court setting. He stands behind one of the officials involved in the pressure placed on Jeremiah during Jerusalem's final crisis. First appears in Jer 37:3.1
AI summary: Shelemiah matters because his cross references place his household in the orbit of royal officials who hear, resist, and scrutinize Jeremiah's message during Judah's last days. Though he is not the primary actor in the scene, his family line helps locate the political network surrounding the prophet. Taken together, the material presents Shelemiah as a household source within the contested leadership of collapsing Jerusalem.1
Central Figure
Shelemiah
Meaning: God is my perfection; my happiness; my peace
Father of one of those who accused Jeremiah to Zedekiah (Jer.
Children
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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.