4 others in the registry answer to the name Gedaliah. Every Gedaliah in the Bible
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Gedaliah
גְּדַלְיָה
Gedaliah, a priest, was among those who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile and pledged to put them away.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 10:18
- last named
- Ezra 10:18
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Gedaliah?
Gedaliah is mentioned in Ezr.10.18 as one of the priests who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile. After the return from exile, Ezra, a scribe and priest, led a reform movement to address the issue of intermarriage between the Israelites and the surrounding nations (Ezr.9.1-2). Ezra called for a assembly of all the returned exiles in Jerusalem, where he confronted them about their unfaithfulness and urged them to separate themselves from the foreign wives (Ezr.10.10-11). Gedaliah, along with several other priests, was found guilty of this offense (Ezr.10.18). In response to Ezra's call for repentance, Gedaliah and the others pledged to put away their foreign wives and offered a ram from the flock as a guilt offering (Ezr.10.19). This incident highlights the importance of maintaining religious and ethnic purity among the Israelites, especially for the priests who were responsible for leading the people in worship and obedience to God's law.
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Where Gedaliah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1).
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