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Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Jer 21:1) | 4 tn Heb “sent to him…Maaseiah, saying,….” |
| (0.67) | (1Ch 6:40) | 1 tc A few Hebrew mss, one LXX ms, and the Syriac read “Maaseiah.” |
| (0.33) | (Jer 37:3) | 3 sn The priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, a member of the earlier delegation (21:2), was the chief of security in the temple to whom the Babylonian false prophet wrote a letter complaining that Jeremiah should be locked up for his treasonous prophecies (29:25-26). See the study notes on 21:2 and 29:25 for further details. |
| (0.33) | (Jer 29:25) | 6 sn According to Jer 52:24 and 2 Kgs 25:18, Zephaniah son of Maaseiah was second in command to the high priest. He was the high ranking priest who was sent, along with a civic official, by Zedekiah to inquire of the Lord’s will from Jeremiah on two separate occasions (Jer 21:1; 37:3). |
