Bible Person
Meaning: accomplishment or perfection of the Lord · Male · 4 cross references
Gemariah son of Shaphan is the official whose chamber becomes the place from which Baruch reads Jeremiah's scroll. He stands among the scribal and administrative figures who respond seriously to prophetic warning during Jehoiakim's reign. First appears in Jer 36:10.1
AI summary: Gemariah matters because the cross references present him as a court-connected figure who gives space and a hearing to Jeremiah's message at a moment of real danger. His reaction, and his effort with others to restrain the king from burning the scroll, distinguish him from the harder responses around him. He is not a prophet himself, but he helps preserve prophetic witness. Taken together, the material presents Gemariah as a receptive official whose role supports Jeremiah's written warning.1
Central Figure
Gemariah
Meaning: accomplishment or perfection of the Lord
The son of Shaphan, and one of the Levites of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim (Jer.
The son of Shaphan, and one of the Levites of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:10; 2 Kings 22:12). Baruch read aloud to the people from Gemariah’s chamber, and again in the hearing of Gemariah and other scribes, the prophecies of Jeremiah (Jer. 36:11-20), which filled him with terror. He joined with others in entreating the king not to destroy the roll of the prophecies which Baruch had read (21-25). 3
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.