Man living at the time of Exile and Return
Malchijah, known as Hashabiah in the LXX, a descendant of Parosh, divorced his foreign wife during Ezra's reforms.
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Also known as Hashabiah · Malkijah · Malchiah
Malchijah (or Malkijah in the NIV) was a man from the family of Parosh who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. He has a brother who is also called Malchijah, so some BIbles translate his name as Hashabiah as in the LXX. As part of Ezra's reforms to purify the Jewish community, Malchijah and others who had married foreign wives were required to divorce them (Ezr.10.25). The presence of two similar men in the same verse named Malchijah in this list either indicates that it was a common name during this period, or a scribal error.
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1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H4441
And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.