The Definition of the word Gemariah

Gemariah

Jehovah has made perfect. (1.) The son of Shaphan, and one of the Levites of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:10; 2 Kings 22:12). Baruch read aloud to the people from Gemariah's "chamber, and again in the hearing of Gemariah and other scribes," "the prophecies of Jeremiah (Jer. 36:11-20), which filled him" with terror. He joined with others in entreating the king not to destroy the roll of the prophecies which Baruch had read (21-25). "(2.) The son of Hilkiah, who accompanied Shaphan with the "tribute-money from Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar, and was the" bearer at the same time of a letter from Jeremiah to the Jewish "captives at Babylon (Jer. 29:3, 4)."