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Shabbethai
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Shabbethai in the Bible Dictionary
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1. A Levite, assistant to Ezra
Ezra 10:15
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
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2. An expounder of the law
Neh 8:7
7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
Nehemiah 8:7 -
3. A chief Levite, an attendant of the temple
Neh 11:16
16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.
Nehemiah 11:16
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
