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Shemaiah (Hebrew: שְׁמַעְיָה Šəmaʿyā; Samaia in the Septuagint), also known as Samaia or Semeias, [1] was a prophet during the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:22-24). He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church on 8 January and 9 January .
the eldest son of Obed-edom (I Chronicles 26:4-8) Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a scribe mentioned as active at the death of David (I Chronicles 24:6) Shemaiah, a prophet in the reign of Rehoboam (I Kings 12:22-24; II Chronicles 11:2-4; 12:5) one of the Levites whom Jehoshaphat appointed to teach the law (II Chronicles 17:8)
He is described as being the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-Jearim. During the reign of Jehoiakim , king of Judah , he fled into Egypt from the cruelty of the king, but having been brought back he was beheaded and his body "cast into the graves of the common people."
Hillel the Elder was a contemporary of Shemaiah and Abtalion, and regularly attended their lectures. [8] Of the political life of Shemaiah, only one incident is reported. When Herod on his own responsibility had put to death the leader of the national party in Galilee, Hyrcanus II, he permitted the Sanhedrin to cite him before the tribunal ...
Uriah, the son of Shemaiah, was from Kiriath-Jearim, and was a contemporary of Jeremiah who prophesied against Jerusalem (see Jeremiah 26:20). This aroused the wrath of King Jehoiakim (r. 609–598 BC) who sought to put Uriah to death. Uriah escaped to Egypt, where he was apprehended by the king's henchman and extradited to Jerusalem for ...
It was sold for £1.8 million in 1994, which at that time was the highest price paid for a Pre-Raphaelite painting. [8] It is held in Leeds Art Gallery. The third and final version was commissioned by the art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons in March 1873. It changed hands over the century until it was acquired by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1994.
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Shemaiah, a name which in Hebrew (שמע-יה shema-Ya) means "God Heard", may refer to: Shmaya (tanna) , rabbinic sage who was leader of the Pharisees in the 1st century BC Any of several people in the Bible/Christian Old Testament; see List of people in the Hebrew Bible called Shemaiah