Amariah = "Jehovah speaks" or "Yah(u) has promised"

1. Zadok's grandfather

2. a head priest's son in Solomon's time

3. a chief priest under Jehoshaphat

4. Hezekiah's son, great-grandfather of Zephaniah

5. a Levite in Ezra's time

6. a Levite under Hezekiah

7. a priest in Nehemiah's time

Malchijah or Malchiah = "my king is Jehovah"

1. the father of Pashur in the time of Jeremiah

2. the son of Hammelech into whose dungeon Jeremiah was cast

3. the head of the 5th course of priests in the time of David

4. one of the priests who was at the reading of the law by Ezra, sealed the covenant with Nehemiah, and was at the dedication of the wall with Nehemiah

5. a Levite ancestor of Asaph and descendant of Levi through Gershon

6. son of Parosh who put away a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

7. son of Harim who put away a foreign wife and helped repair the wall and the Tower of Ovens in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah

8. son of Rechab, leader of the district of Beth Haccerem, who helped repair the Refuse Gate in the time of Nehemiah

9. a goldsmith who helped repair the wall in the time of Nehemiah

Pashur = "freedom"

1. a priest, son of Malchiah and one of the chief princes in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah

2. a priest, son of Immer, chief governor of the temple, and the one who struck and then put the prophet Jeremiah into the stocks in the reign of king Jehoiakim of Judah

3. son of Malchijah, father of Zechariah, and ancestor of Adaiah who did the work of the temple in the time of Nehemiah. Probably same as 1

4. father of Gedaliah; probably the same as 1

5. head of a family of returned exiles