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Shemaiah
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
or Shemai´ah (whom Jehovah hears), a prophet of the time of Rehoboam, who was commissioned to enjoin that monarch to forego his design of reducing the ten tribes to obedience (). In , this Shemaiah is stated to have written the Chronicles of the reign in which he flourished.
Shemaiah, 2
Shemaiah, a person who, without authority, assumed the functions of a prophet among the Israelites in exile. He was so much annoyed by the prophecies which Jeremiah sent to Babylon, the tendency of which was contrary to his own, that he wrote to Jerusalem, denouncing the prophet as an impostor, and urging the authorities to enforce his silence. In return he received new prophecies, announcing that he should never behold that close of the bondage which he fancied to be at hand, and that none of his race should witness the reestablishment of the nation ().
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Shemaiah'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/s/shemaiah.html.
