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Irijah

Name meaning: the fear of the Lord (Hitchcock)

(seen by the Lord), son of Shelemiah, a captain in the ward, who met Jeremiah in the gate of Jerusalem called the “gate of Benjamin” accused him of being about to desert to the Chaldeans; and led him back to the princes. (Jeremiah 37:13,14) (B.C. 589.)

Source:Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)Public domain

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