Нехеламите

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Old Testament

Nehelam was the hometown of Shemaiah, a false prophet who opposed Jeremiah.

The Nehelamite was the designation applied to Shemaiah, a false prophet who wrote letters from Babylon to Jerusalem opposing Jeremiah, complaining that the priest Zephaniah had not restrained Jeremiah from prophesying (Jeremiah 29:24–32). God declared through Jeremiah that because Shemaiah had prophesied falsely and incited rebellion, none of his descendants would see the good things God intended for his people. The geographic referent Nehelam is otherwise unattested in the biblical record.