Bible Person
Meaning: Malchijah · Male · 1 cross reference
This Malchiah entry refers to the priest standing beside Ezra in Nehemiah 8:4, not to the wall-builders or the prison-court namesake elsewhere. He belongs to the public setting in which the law is read to the restored community. First appears in Neh 8:4.1
AI summary: This Malchiah matters because his single cross reference places him visibly beside Ezra during the reading of the law. The entry helps show that covenant renewal after exile was a public act supported by named priests and leaders. Taken together, the material presents this Malchiah as a priestly witness in the public reading of Scripture.1
Central Figure
Malchiah
Meaning: Malchijah
A priest who stood by Ezra when he “read in the book of the law of God” (Neh.
| Book | Cross-References |
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| Neh |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.