Person Old Testament
Malchijah
Also known as Malchijah =ESV; Malkijah =NIV; Malchiah =KJV
Malchijah, son of Rechab, repaired the Dung Gate during Nehemiah's wall restoration. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Nehemiah 3:14.
Why it matters. Son of Rechab, repaired the Dung Gate in Jerusalem.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Malchijah
Malchijah, the son of Rechab, was a ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem. He participated in the rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall under Nehemiah's leadership. Malchijah was responsible for repairing the Dung Gate, one of the gates in the city wall (Neh.3.14).
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
- Rechab
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Nehemiah (1 verse)