List of people in the Hebrew Bible called Shemaiah
Shemaiah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible :
- a Levite in the time of David, who with 200 of his relatives took part in the bringing up of the ark from Obed-edom to Hebron
- the eldest son of Obed-edom
- Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a scribe mentioned as active at the death of David
- Shemaiah, a prophet in the reign of Rehoboam
- one of the Levites whom Jehoshaphat appointed to teach the law
- Shemaiah, the father of Shimri, listed as a Simeonite five generations before the reign of Hezekiah
- Shemaiah son of Jeduthun, a Levite in the time of Hezekiah
- a Levite appointed to "distribute the oblations of the Lord" during the reign of Hezekiah
- a Levite in the time of Josiah
- the father of Urijah the prophet
- the father of a prince in the reign of Jehoiakim
- Shemaiah the Nehelamite, a false prophet who went with the captives to Babylon and who opposed Jeremiah .
- Shemaiah son of Galal, a Levite listed as the father of a man living in the city of Jerusalem after the end of the Babylonian captivity Levite
- Shemaiah son of Shechaniah, listed among those who made repairs to the wall of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 3:29
- Shemaiah son of Delaiah, a false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem
- a priest involved in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem
- Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, a Levite listed as living in the city of Jerusalem after the end of the Babylonian captivity
- a prince of Judah who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem
The second book of Chronicles refers to a "Book of the Prophet Shemaiah". No existing work has been identified with this title.