SEMIAS
“Jehovah has heard.”
(a) Levite chief of two hundred descendants of Elizaphan, who participated in the solemnities of the transportation of the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Mount Zion (1 Chron. 15:8-11).
(b) Prophet who lived in the time of Rehoboam and who prevented him from launching a campaign against the ten tribes during the national division (1 Kings 12:22-24; 2 Chron. 11:2-4). Five years later Shishak attacked Jerusalem.
Shemaiah announced that God permitted this invasion in order to punish the wickedness of Judah and all Israel. When Rehoboam and the princes humbled themselves, God did not hand them over to death, but subjected them to Pharaoh for a certain time (2 Chron. 12:5-8). Shemaiah wrote the history of Rehoboam’s reign (2 Chron. 12:15).
(c) False prophet who gave hope to the deported Jews in Babylon that the exile would last a short time (Jer. 29:24-32).
(d) Another false prophet, son of Delaiah and grandson of Mehetabel. Tobiah and Sanballat convinced him to frighten Nehemiah and incite him to hide in the Temple, without achieving his goal (Neh. 6: 10-13).
(e) he is also the name of twenty-four other people mentioned in the OT.