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 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 A Son of Joel, Father of Gog