Malchiah

Malchiah

:See also Malchijah for a discussion of biblical persons mentioned by the alternate spelling. Malchiah or Melchiah was a figure mentioned in the Bible, in the Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 21, Verse 1.

Melchiah was a priest in the kingdom of Zedekiah, and the father of Pashur, the messenger who was charged with taking a message from the King to Jeremiah asking for God's intervention in the war against Nebuchadnezzar.


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