DELAIAH dĭ lā’ yə (דְּלָיָ֨הוּ׃֙, meaning the Lord drew up) is the name of four or five, the oldest twenty-third of twenty-four priests David organized “to come into the house of the Lord” (1 Chron 24:18, 19).

When Baruch read Jeremiah’s scroll Delaiah was one of all the princes who heard, referred to the king and one of three who urged him not to burn the inspired prophecy (Jer 36:12, 25).

1 Chronicles 3:24 has a Delaiah among seven sons of Elioenai, a descendant of Solomon.

In the return from captivity the sons of Delaiah could not prove whether they were really Israelites (Ezra 2:60; cf. Neh 7:62). Perhaps it was a different Delaiah whose son Shemaiah helped in a final effort to stop Nehemiah by closing the doors of the Temple in Jerusalem (Neh 6:10).