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am-a-rı̄´a (×מויה, 'ămaryaÌ„h and ×מריהוּ, 'ămaryaÌ„huÌ„, “the Lord has saidâ€; compare HPN, 180, 285). (1) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Meraioth and grandfather of Zadok (, ) who lived in David's time. Compare Zadok (, etc.) also Ant, VIII, i, 3 and X, viii, 6. (2) A Levite in the line of Kohath-Hebron referred to in and at the time when David divided the Levites into courses. (3) A Levite in the line of Aaron-Eleazar; a son of Azariah who “executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built†( f). Compare where in the abbreviated list this Amariah is mentioned as an ancestor of Ezra. See AMARIAS (1 Esdras 8:2; 2 Esdras 1:2) and number (4) of this article (4) Chief priest and judge “in all matters of Yahweh†appointed by Jehoshaphat (). Possibly identical with Amariah, number (3). (5) A descendant of Judah in the line of Perez and an ancestor of Ataiah who lived in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile (). Compare Imri () and number (7) of this article, which Amariah seems to be of the same family, (6) A Levite and an assistant of Kore who was appointed by Hezekiah to distributed the “oblations of Yahweh†to their brethren (). (7) A son of Bani who had married a foreign woman (). See number (5) of this article (8) A priest who with Nehemiah sealed the covenant (); he had returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel () and was the father of Jehohanan (compare Hanani, ), priest at the time of Joiakim (). Compare Immer (; ; ) and also Emmeruth (the King James Version “Meruth,†1 Esdras 5:24). (9) An ancestor of Zephaniah, the prophet ().