Rephaiah

The name Rephaiah belongs in the UPDV to five distinct Old Testament figures, all of them genealogical or administrative: a descendant of David, a Simeonite captain who raids Mount Seir, a clan-head from the tribe of Issachar, a descendant of Jonathan in the Saulide line, and a district governor in Nehemiah's Jerusalem. Four of the five appear only in the Chronicler's rosters; the fifth surfaces in the wall-rebuilding catalogue of Nehemiah 3.

A Davidic Descendant

The first Rephaiah heads a sub-branch in the post-exilic continuation of the Davidic line. The Chronicler lists him among the descendants of Hananiah: "And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah" (1Ch 3:21). The verse names him only as a recognized house within the wider royal genealogy.

A Simeonite Captain at Mount Seir

The second Rephaiah is one of four named captains in a Simeonite raiding party. The Chronicler reports the expedition with him in command alongside three brothers: "And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi" (1Ch 4:42). His role in the UPDV text is that of a co-captain in a five-hundred-man company; the verse does not single him out in the action that follows.

A Clan-Head from Issachar

The third Rephaiah appears in the genealogy of Issachar as one of the six sons of Tola, listed among the clan's mustered fighting strength. "And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit,] of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and six hundred" (1Ch 7:2). The UPDV notes him as a "head of his fathers' house" within Tola's line and tallies the broader clan at twenty-two thousand six hundred mustered men.

A Descendant of Jonathan (Called Raphah)

The fourth Rephaiah belongs to the Saulide genealogy preserved twice in 1 Chronicles, once under his full name and once under a shortened form. In the parallel roster of 1 Chronicles 9 he reads as Rephaiah: "and Moza begot Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son" (1Ch 9:43). The earlier roster in 1 Chronicles 8 substitutes Raphah at exactly the same position, with the flanking names — Moza, Binea, Eleasah, Azel — identical: "And Moza begot Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son" (1Ch 8:37). The UPDV thus carries the same Jonathanite figure under two spellings across the two parallel lists, the variant flagged with the cross-reference "Called Rapha." The wider Saulide cluster is treated under Rapha.

Governor in Nehemiah's Jerusalem

The fifth Rephaiah is the only one of the five who appears outside Chronicles. He surfaces in the catalogue of those who repaired the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah, identified by patronymic and by the half-district he governed: "And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem" (Neh 3:9). The verse pairs his administrative title with the specific stretch of wall assigned to his work-party in the rebuilding sequence.