Amaziah

"Strengthened by Jehovah." The name of various biblical personages:

  1. A Levite, son of Hilkiah, of the descendants of Ethan the Merarite.1
  2. A priest of the golden calves at Bethel.2
  3. The father of Joshah, one of the Simeonite chiefs in the time of Hezekiah.3

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References

Notes

  1. 1 Chr. 6:45.
  2. Amos 7:10-17.
  3. 1 Chr. 4:34.

Source

  • Easton, M.G. (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary. New York: Harper & Brothers.

This article incorporates text from Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) by M.G. Easton, which is in the public domain.