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Shamlai

SHAMLAI*

Father of a family of temple servants returning to the land of Canaan with Zerubbabel after the Babylonian captivity; alternately spelled Shalmai in Ezra 2:46 and Nehemiah 7:48.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)The classic article on this subject

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