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GEDALIAH.—1. Son of Ahikam, who had protected Jeremiah from the anti-Chaldæan party (Jer_26:24), and probably grandson of Shaphan, the pious scribe (2Ki_22:1-20). Gedaliah naturally shared the views of Jeremiah. This commended him to Nebuchadnezzar, who made him governor over ‘the poor of the people that were left in the land.’ His two months’ rule and treacherous murder are detailed in Jer_40:1-16; Jer_41:1-18 (2Ki_25:22-25). The anniversary of Gedaliah’s murder—the third day of the seventh month, Tishri (Zec_7:5; Zec_8:19)—has ever since been observed as one of the four Jewish fasts. 2. Eldest ‘son’ of Jeduthun (1Ch_25:3; 1Ch_25:9). 3. A priest ‘of the sons of Jeshua,’ who had married a ‘strange’ woman (Ezr_10:18); called in 1Es_9:19 Joadanus. 4. Son of Pashhur, a prince in the reign of Zedekiah (Jer_38:1). 5. Grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah (Zep_1:1).