Person Old Testament
Bariah
Bariah was a descendant of King David through Solomon's line. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 3:22.
Why it matters. A descendant of David through the line of Solomon.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Bariah
Bariah is briefly mentioned in 1Ch.3.22 as one of the descendants of King David through the line of Solomon. The context of the passage is a genealogy tracing the royal lineage from David to several generations after the Babylonian exile. Bariah is listed as one of the sons of Shemaiah, who was a descendant of Shecaniah.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Shemaiah
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
1 Chronicles (1 verse)