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Irijah

Gender:: Male
Verse mentions:: 2

Irijah was the officer at Jerusalem's gate of Benjamin who arrested the prophet Jeremiah on a false charge of deserting to the Babylonians, leading to his imprisonment (Jeremiah 37:13-15).

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Shelemiah· father

Appears in 2

Reference	Verse
Jeremiah 37:13	And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 37:14	Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

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