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

Jehohanan = "Jehovah has graced"

1. a priest during the high priesthood of Joiakim who returned with Zerubbabel

2. a high priest in the time of Ezra

3. a Levite priest who took part in the dedication of the wall in the time of Nehemiah

4. son of Tobiah

5. a Korhite Levite and one of the doorkeepers to the tabernacle in the time of David

6. a captain of Judah under king Jehoshaphat

7. an Ephraimite

8. an Israelite with a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

9. a Jewish captain after the fall of Jerusalem

10. the eldest son of king Josiah

11. a post-exilic prince of the line of David

12. father of Azariah, priest in Solomon's time

13. a Benjamite, one of David's mighty warriors

14. a Gadite, one of David's mighty warriors

15. a returning exile

Meshullam = "friend"

1. grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe

2. son of Zerubbabel

3. a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal

4. a Benjamite, father of Sallu

5. a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity

6. a Benjamite

   1. perhaps the same as 3 or 4

7. a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah

8. son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem

9. son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem

10. a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

11. father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah

    1. perhaps the same as 'Shallum'

12. a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai

13. a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

14. a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua

15. a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem

16. a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah

17. a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives

18. ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah

19. a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away

20. one of the men who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people

    1. maybe the same as 17

Ezra = "help"

1. the priest and scribe who led the reforms of the returned exiles in Jerusalem; co-worker with Nehemiah

2. a priest with Zerubbabel

3. another post-exilic Jew