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(merciful ).
  1. One who went up from Babylon with Zerubbabel. ( Ezra 2:2 ) (B.C. 536.)
  2. "Rehum the chancellor." ( Ezra 4:8 Ezra 4:9 Ezra 4:17 Ezra 4:23 ) He was perhaps a kind of lieutenant-governor of the province under the king of Persia. (B.C. 535.)
  3. A Levite of the family of Bani, who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. ( Nehemiah 3:17 ) (B.C. 445.)
  4. One of the chief of the people, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. ( Nehemiah 10:25 ) (B.C. 410.)
  5. A priestly family, or the head of a priestly house, who went up with Zerubbabel. ( Nehemiah 12:3 ) (B.C. 536.)