Person Old Testament
Malchijah
Also known as Malchijah =ESV; Malkijah =NIV, KJV
Malchijah, a descendant of Parosh, divorced his foreign wife during Ezra's reforms. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:25.
Why it matters. Descendant of Parosh, who divorced his foreign wife.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Malchijah
Malchijah was a man from the family of Parosh who had married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra. As part of Ezra's reforms to purify the Jewish community, Malchijah and others who had married foreign wives were required to divorce them (Ezr.10.25). The presence of two similar men in the same verse named Malchijah in this list either indicates that it was a common name during this period, or a scribal error.
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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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)